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IS THERE NO END TO THE PANDERING?
Clearly there is NO end to the back bending pandering -- now British Airways is removing beef from it's menu so as to not offend Hindus.
What does this mean for the people of Great Britain? - Long time and well known home of beef eaters - the Sunday roast - Beef and kidney pie - beef pasties. cottage pie etc etc etc.? Why it means that once again British traditional fare is taking a back seat to minority "restrictions".
How ironic that the economy class passengers - also known as the "cattle class" will not be served beef. Should British airways and the Labour government ban the term "cattle class" because that too might offend Hindus? If Hindu's truly do "respect British culture" as stated in the below article - why would they be offended by something so intrinsically British?
So little thought is given to the British people - British Airways doesn't even give a hint of a concern that British people might be upset by the decision.
Ignoring the indigenous British people has become the norm.
entire article - emphasis mine
For decades the national dish has been a staple meal on the national carrier.
But now British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its "religious restrictions".
The airline has instead switched to a fish pie or chicken dish option for the so-called "cattle class" passengers.
BA's second-biggest long-haul market is to India, where the majority Hindu population do not eat beef because of their beliefs.
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In-flight food: BA passengers will be served a chicken or fish meal after beef has been taken off the menu
The decision to scrap the nation's favourite fare was described as a "great shame" by the English Beef and Lamb Executive, formerly part of the Meat and Livestock Commission.
A spokesman said: "It is regrettable that Britain's flag carrier is not proposing to serve Britain's national dish.
"It is a meal we are rightly proud of. Roast beef and beefeaters are symbols or Britain used to promote tourism.
"Our beef is also much in demand overseas. It is predominately grass fed and highly praised for its flavour.
"It is obviously up to British Airways to decide what they serve on flights, but beef is an ideal meat for making into airline meals." A BA spokesman said the it stopped serving beef to economy class passengers last month.
He added: "We can only serve two options and beef and pork obviously have religious restrictions.
"We have to try to use two meals which appeal to as many customers as possible. This summer season we are offering customers in World Traveller on most longhaul flights a choice of chicken and tarragon or fish pie.
"We also look at trends from major supermarkets to see what types of meals are popular and fish pie style meals are selling well at the moment.
"These two meals proved popular in tasting tests and are also proving popular on board.
"It has nothing to do with the fear of causing offence - we always offer alternative meals for people with special dietary requirements if they order in advance.
"We are still serving beef based meals on certain menus in First Class and Club World and are currently deciding on whether or not to use beef on the menus for World Traveller customers for the winter season."
The Hindu Council UK said: "The Hindu community will welcome this decision and the news it has been made partly because Hindus don't eat beef.
"Hindus have a great deal of respect for British culture and are well integrated into the British way of life, so it's good to see evidence of how they are literally flying the British flag by choosing British Airways.
"That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it."
In the past three months world beef prices have risen from about £2,500 a tonne to more than £4,000 a tonne, largely because of the weakening dollar and rising feed costs.
BA also said that cost is not a reason for the decision to stop serving beef.
Quote...."That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it."
I'm thinking that Hindus, from my experience, will not have made any demands for this so all I can think is that AntiBritish Airways are paving the way to the pandering towards muslims regarding airline meals. Then they can say "Well, we did it for the Hindus" and nobody complained.
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Good point Ed - I agree - likely the any meat provided is already halal.
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Despite financial hard times in the UK - see what the Labour government is giving Pakistan:
UK to provide 30 Mln pounds budgetary support to Pakistan
By Fatima Raza 'Pakistan Times' Special Correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The British Government will provide 30 million Pound Sterling to Pakistan as budgetary support before the end of the current financial year.
The announcement to this effect was made by British High Commissioner to Pakistan during a meeting with Federal Finance Minister, Senator Ishaq Dar, says a press release issued here.
The British High Commissioner also indicated that British assistance to Pakistan would be increased to 480 million Pounds under the arrangements between the two governments for long-term development partnership.
The assistance would be utilized for reducing poverty, improving financial management and fortifying the principles of democracy.
The two sides agreed to put in place a mechanism to make the assistance performance-oriented.
Economic cooperation for high quality technical capacity development, reducing poverty, strengthening financial management, service delivery in education and health under countries assistance plan for achieving Millennium Development Goals was also discussed. Various other development assistance programmes of UK in Pakistan also figured in the meeting.
Senator Ishaq Dar appreciated UK’s assistance to Pakistan and resolved to accelerate efforts to achieve targets set out in Millennium Development Goals.
He also sought UK’s assistance for development projects in other parts of the country, especially in flung-areas of Balochistan, Sindh and FATA.
He informed the British High Commissioner that his team was in the process of formulating tools of financial management to induct transparency in the system.
The minister said that a council of economic experts would work on mechanism of targeting pro-poor measures. He also sought British assistance for evolving a coherent, uniform and credible system of compiling statistics as well as support for the next census.
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I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss.(given the choice)
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I'm really fed up with the way our elected idiots waste our taxes.. money for criminals, illegals, terrorists and every screwball foreign dictatorship on the planet, while demeaning our culture and native citizens. money for pakistan is a joke, if they can spend 5 billion on their nuclear weaponry why the hell should we provide half a billion for their bloody madrassas, and then another half billion for long term development partnership...development of what? i only give to british charities (especially military... don't believe in any more of our money going out, however tear jerking the cause. when we can't supply help and assistance for alzheimers sufferers and their families (and they're just one case) what the hell are we doing trying to prop up a world that despises our country and it's history (much the same as our glorious leadership does!).
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" IS THERE NO END TO THE PANDERING? "
Yes, there is ... when sharia law rules - which will be over my dead body.
Who's going to gift me a Barrett Xm500 and a 1000 rounds of Raufoss?
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Yer'll siddown and eat yer goat-meat and yer'll LIKE IT !!
Insh'allah!
- the Establishment
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