Halal & Knowledge Center – Working Together For Good Food For Stomachs & Minds!


Can a Roman Catholic (me) and a Muslim (you) build a Knowledge Bank together, cook meat, and live happily ever after? Not “Can” but “Let’s!”

I told myself, “Wow!” when I saw via Facebook sharing Leah Lyn D Domingo’s article, “Searca And UPLB Team Up For Halal S&T And One Health Knowledge Center For Southeast Asia[1]” (09 September 2021, Searca.org). Ms Leah says:

To be hosted by the UPLB School of Environmental Science and Management (SESAM) with support from Searca, the Halal S&T and One Health Knowledge Center is envisaged to be a virtual one-stop, open-access regional hub for country-to-country and cross-country government-academe-industry exchanges of knowledge and resources related to the growing Halal and One Health global ecosystems.

The Halal Knowledge Center would be an open-access for knowledge and resources. The knowledge base will be for growing crops according to halal standards.

Ms Leah quotes Searca Director Glenn B Gregorio as saying, “In Southeast Asia, regional competition has stimulated the local and global markets for halal products.” With halal products, health brings wealth.

Previously a Searca scholar, Project Leader is Yusuf A Sucol of SESAM and the UPLB Climate & Disaster Risks Studies Center.

Health-conscious (underweight), as a writer warrior, I am interested in the halal (allowed food for Muslims according to the Koran), but more interested in the Knowledge Center:

Any journalist or writer in agriculture should welcome a Knowledge Bank that can answer many if not all questions about a subject anytime.
(“Knowledge Bank” image[2] from Facebook)

The Knowledge Center Ms Leah is talking about emphasizes “exchanges of knowledge and resources” related to the production of halal foods. Rico C Ancog, Dean of SESAM, says:

As a unique value proposition, this initiative aims to combine Halal requirements with One Health concepts to afford a more integrative lens in looking into how livestock and ecosystems could be better managed in a more sustainable way.

Ms Leah says, “The first phase of the UPLB-Searca project is to conceptualize the Halal Industry and One Health Ecosystem as an emerging innovation for growth and development.” A necessary step, since you have to know and understand the system before you can say you know what it requires in terms of knowledge.

Knowledge. As a writer, who first of all must be a knowledge seeker, I know what I want from a Knowledge Bank. Now then, as I quoted above, the Halal Knowledge Center will essentially provide “government-academe-industry exchanges of knowledge and resources” – which tells me that it is not yet the Knowledge Center I was hoping for, for writers.

In this Digital Age, the age-old libraries are now passé. I hope the Halal Knowledge Center will go on to build a knowledge base for growing halal food products, including meat products, both for the experienced and beginner.

As source of information, whether on halal or non-halal products, as a writer, I have been dreaming of a universal one-stop-shop Knowledge Bank. I hope the Searca Knowledge Center is the beginning of a dream come true!@517


[1]https://www.searca.org/news/searca-uplb-team-up-halal-st-one-health-knowledge-center-southeast-asia

[2]https://www.facebook.com/Knowledge-Bank-112879070400418/photos/

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