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OK, First off, while I understand the historical (& at that time practical) reasons for Kosher & Halal food, times change.
That said, While I wouldn't personally be so devout, I can accept and understand Tabari's disgust.
I think that the significant part of this story is:
"they (Food Maxx) always specify whether a product is beef or pork. But they couldn't explain why Tabari and his lawyers provided three labels from meat bought without the word ``pork'' on it."
In effect, their food labelling is inept & uncaring and they've been caught out.
The nearest analogy for WASPs I can think of is if Wal-Mart started a Funeral division & cadaver bits got mixed up with the chilled meat display. How upset would YOU be to find you've eaten human corpse... And would you accept "Whoops, computer glitch, but we've fixed it now" as an excuse.
You'd sue their arses off!
Small point Sixate... What's made both Britain and America truly great is the diversity of population and the willingness to accept the best of foreign culture, absorb it, and thus enrich British / US culture. What is the name of your language? Your national capital is named for which North-East English aristocrat & his family? What nation gave you "Liberte"? Like "Pizza" with your six-pack pf "Pilsener" (Plzen) beer? or do you prefer "Chow mein"? "Chop Suey"? Tacos? "Burritos"? "Whiskey"? Does your car / truck engine run on the "Otto" 4 stroke cycle? Is it a "Diesel"? Do you use "Soap"? Go to the "Toilet"? Use "Shampoo" on your hair? Would America have landed on the moon without Von Braun and all the other Germans?
Or do you still sit in your teepee eating buffalo jerky, your dead children & Rattlesnake?
Mike.
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