Now then, This Subway thing. Is it just me, or has the world gone bonkers. You'd think from the response in some circles that it was part of some plan for world domination. It's meat in a slightly better than average sandwich !!. It's not is it ? It's simply a fast foot provider trying to access a bigger customer base, and it's so much simpler to have a single supply chain, quicker to have your staff only worrying about one option, and cheaper to have one option on your advertising and in store display.
So, just to get our facts straight, is this Halal meat that has been stunned (some is) or halal meat that hasn't.....It seems there are two issues here. One, the practise of halal meat prep without stunning, which as far as I'm concerned, if done for strict religious reasons is fine, if you're the person choosing to eat meat prepared that way. The second is whether Subway should be making a supply chain decision for all of its customers based on the religious requirements of a minority of them (I'm sure most religious Muslims for whom this matters are far too sensible to eat this overpriced / oversized crap anyway.) Finally, as Subway seems to be claiming that this meat is sourced from abatoirs where stunning the animal does take place, (and in which case it's just the same as normal production bar the ritual words during the killing of the animal) then it's only a half way response anyway...or, and this concept might really shake em up at head office..why not have the option of both..and it's not being done in all the UK stores either. I'm pretty sure the Muslim community could do without all the avoidable aggro this is generating too. If someone with half a brain at Subway had sat down and thought about this for ten minutes, instead of coming up with this half baked piece of politically correct fuckwittery, there would have been no problem...Have you ever asked your waiter at the local Indian Restaurant where he sources his meat..because I wouldn't mind betting you've been enjoying your Rubys for years, and eating Halal without knowing..or it would seem, caring.
Monday, 5 May 2014
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