Pork Banned In Some Schools In London by Labour Council

[Svejk]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/islington-council-bans-pork-from-menu-in-all-of-boroughs-primary-schools-10040375.html

[Jackdaw33]

//sorting out the logistics//

This is beginning to sound more and more like the Monty Python dead parrot sketch.

[Svejk]

Meanwhile in a Rotherham school,,,,,,,,,,,,

[anotheoldgit]

ToraToraTora

/// Standard Labour stuff, they love to please their Muslim friends. ///

Not strictly friends, they just like to 'butter' up to them, so as to gain their vote.

[Mamyalynne]

Dead parrot off the menu would be a good thing surely.

[naomi24]

Perhaps it's an exercise in damage limitation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381769/Cambridge-dinner-lady-Alison-Waldock-sacked-accidentally-dishing-gammon-Muslim-girl.html

[Jackdaw33]

If Mahomet were around today I can't see him voting Labour, as Labour Party policy and the Koran tend to diverge on certain issues.

[anneasquith]

packed lunches is the answer, where parents are in charge of what their children eat, eg. diabetic.

[Ric.ror]

AOG - as far as I am aware meat eaters eat cheese
Personally - for cultural reasons I don't eat halal so I boycott certain shops mostly subway

[Dizmo]

Oh dear, the mention of a Rotherham school. Is it really that close to home?

[retrocop]

I notice this only applies to primary but not secondary schools in this Labour Borough.
Perhaps we would be right to assume that these young kids don't have one word of English in their head and can't ask for themselves Not to be served pork!!

[Dizmo]

I agree with the packed lunch idea. It makes more sense to me. There are too many variables to deal with for canteen/school staff.

[SirOracle]

Retro " Sharia law starting to rule ".

Good news for you Retro......a vacancy for you then with a return to your first love, being a policeman again,albeit as a Sharia one.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - "Why do we continue to kow-tow to our ethnic minorities, surely it is up to the children to know if they are not allowed to eat it because of their religious beliefs, if they are far to young then why bother it won't do them any harm to eat pork?"

It's a simple knee-jerk reaction to link Labour and Muslims together under this context, and to suggest that this just a fuss about nothing.

It's not - as I have described before, being a Muslim is far more interwoven into daily life, including eating, than the nominal Christian observations that are met by an increasingly marginalised section of the indigenous population.

But to simply dismiss this as pandering to faddy minorities is to miss the point.

People who live here have a right to have their religious beliefs accommodated where necessary, and if, as the council advises, this is coupled with saving stretched finances, then maybe naysayers should have a look at the wider picture.

[Jackdaw33]

I think the point here is that since Muslims do not eat pork, nobody should eat pork. Hardly respecting the rights of the indigenous population!

[naomi24]

andy-hughes, //People who live here have a right to have their religious beliefs accommodated where necessary//

No. People can believe what they like but when their beliefs encroach upon the lives of people who don't hold similar beliefs, their rights end.

[youngmafbog]

//People who live here have a right to have their religious beliefs accommodated where necessary//

And that should override the majority then?

And cost cuts have nothing to do with it, pork is cheap.

[douglas9401]

If it's the cost that's the real problem then the cheapest option would be to say 'No, we're keeping things as they are. Adapt or not, it's entirely up to you'.

Of course that won't happen as it would involve the council growing a collective pair.

[Mamyalynne]

Once again - it is nothing to do with the price of pork.

[Jackdaw33]

//Once again - it is nothing to do with the price of pork.//

...but it has everything to do with attracting Muslim votes.

[tamborine]

Our kids will soon live on chapatti & lentils as in sub continent, and be as under nourished & skinny. Less NHS weight problems.