1.   By custom, halal meat is delivered to butchers in whole carcasses, rather than cut into pieces before shipping.

2.   But whole carcasses were cumbersome and expensive to ship.

3.   The current program classifies the whole carcass as specified risk material, which has quickly shown serious bottlenecks in the system.

4.   They piled logs in a pit, burned the wood down to embers and smoked whole carcasses overnight for a feast the next day.