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Post by maggie on Mar 8, 2014 19:57:00 GMT
Parents fury as pork sausages are banned from the school menu and replaced with halal meat Parents have condemned a school's decision to ban all pork products from the menu and replace other meats with halal versions. Pupils aged between three and 11 at Brinsworth Manor Infant and Junior Schools in Rotherham - which Ofsted identifies as having only a small number of pupils from minority ethnic groups - will no longer be able to enjoy sausages, bacon or ham. Parents at both schools, which share a site, were told of the decision in a letter from Rotherham Council’s principal catering officer Ron Parry, who wrote that there had been ‘minor adjustments’ to the lunch menu. The move comes as Britain's vet John Blackwell called for Muslims and Jews to use more 'acceptable' methods of killing. And parents have branded the decision 'a scandal' as only twenty per cent of the 600 pupils are Muslim and the decision to provide halal meat was up to individual schools in the town. A mother with an 11-year-old girl at the school, who asked not to be named for fear of being branded racist, said: 'At home I pay more for organic and free range food. I am a Christian but I don’t do it because of that, it’s more for the respect of how animals are killed. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575724/Parents-fury-pork-sausages-banned-school-menu-replaced-halal-meat.htmlOnly a small number of ethnic pupils in this school and still the majority have to bow down to what they want. Telling that the parent who commented did not want to be named for fear of being labelled racist!
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Post by Barney McGrew on Mar 9, 2014 7:02:51 GMT
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Post by PeterL on Mar 10, 2014 11:29:50 GMT
Personally I would like to see Halhal meat banned And if Muslims don’t like it then there are plenty of other foods other than meat they can eat
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Post by Barney McGrew on Mar 11, 2014 6:53:59 GMT
Personally I would like to see Halhal meat banned And if Muslims don’t like it then there are plenty of other foods other than meat they can eat What annoys me about it is that halal meat on sale in supermarkets isn't clearly marked as such and those of us who don't wish to eat it have no choice but to take what's there or keep on asking staff who don't know whether it's halal or not and have to go and ask someone else. Personally I don't want animals killed by the halal method. I think it's cruel.
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Post by maggie on Mar 14, 2014 20:41:35 GMT
It should be clearly labelled. Supermarkets wouldn't do that though, as they wouldn't be able to sell enough of the stuff because people wouldn't buy it.
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Post by PeterL on Mar 17, 2014 9:20:07 GMT
It should be clearly labelled. Supermarkets wouldn't do that though, as they wouldn't be able to sell enough of the stuff because people wouldn't buy it. Personally, I couldn’t care less about supermarkets not being able to sell enough of the stuff What I do care about is the fact that Halal slaughter is cruel
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Post by Barney McGrew on Mar 18, 2014 6:58:35 GMT
If the BBC had the courage to show how animals suffer when slaughtered using the halal method, there would be such a public outcry it would be banned by Parliament within a month.
They would never show such a film of course.
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