Schools in Leicester may have been accidentally serving pork to Muslims. Meat labelled as halal has been found to contain pork - which Muslims are expected not to eat - and the BBC is reporting that imams (Muslim clerics) are advising Muslim pupils to eat vegetarian food for the time being. That is excellent news.
Halal meat comes from an animal which was killed according to the rules laid down by the Halal Food Authority. I quote from their website:
The animal ... must be conscious and
alive when it is slaughtered. (They might want to rephrase that. It can hardly be conscious and dead.)
Halal slaughter is cruel and barbaric, and should not be allowed in a civilised country. And yet Halal meat is not only permitted in this country, but is often supplied to people who are not Muslims and who are not aware that it derives from an animal which was conscious when it bled to death. One of the good things about eating pork is that at least you can be confident that the pig was not killed in this way.
If we are going to have Muslims in this country, then they might as well be vegetarian Muslims.
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