Is Creekstone Farms Halal? What to Check on the Label

Creekstone Farms is a premium beef company based in Arkansas City, Kansas. It sells Premium Black Angus, Master Chef Black Angus, Natural Black Angus and Irodori Wagyu beef, and it also sells All-Natural Heritage Duroc Pork ^[1][2]. Its beef goes to restaurants, butcher shops and retailers in the US and abroad ^[2].

The company highlights animal welfare. It says its Natural Black Angus cattle are raised under Certified Humane practices, and its plant has run a humane handling program since 2010 ^[5]. Those claims are about welfare, not halal. Certified Humane is not a halal certification.

Some grocery stores sell packs labeled "Creekstone Halal Beef," such as an 80% lean ground beef pack ^[4].

But Creekstone's official website does not describe a halal program. Its product, international and commitment pages make no mention of halal, and a search of the site for "halal" returns no results ^[1][2][5]. We also could not confirm from an official source which certifier oversees the halal-labeled beef.

So the safe reading is this: some Creekstone beef is processed and sold as halal, but not all Creekstone beef is halal. A Creekstone steak without a halal label should be treated as not certified.

• Read the pack. Look for the word "halal" on the label itself, not just the Creekstone name.
• Find the certifier. A halal label should name an Islamic certifying body. If it doesn't, ask the store or contact the certifier to confirm the product is listed.
• Ask about slaughter. If hand slaughter matters to you, ask the certifier. Some certifiers, like Halal Monitoring Services (HMS), certify only hand-slaughtered meat and monitor it from the plant to the store ^[6].
• At restaurants, ask to see the current halal certificate. A menu that says "Creekstone beef" tells you the brand, not the halal status.

Regular supermarket beef raises the wider question of meat slaughtered by Jews and Christians, on which scholars differ. See our beef page for those views.

Creekstone also sells Heritage Duroc pork, which it says is farm-raised by its producers in Iowa ^[3]. Pork is never halal. Its presence in the brand's range is another reason to rely on a halal label and certifier rather than the brand name alone.

If you shop online from Creekstone's own store, look for product listings that state halal clearly. If a listing doesn't say halal, assume it is not certified.

For steak cuts and grades, see our steak and Wagyu pages. Creekstone brisket is popular for barbecue, and our brisket page covers what to check there. If you buy beef at warehouse stores, read our guide to Costco meat.