Godzilla (11-01-11)
Reality is an invention of my imagination.
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Godzilla (11-01-11)
It is a bit ridiculous to walk into a chicken specialty chain expecting a pig on a spit somewhere. How far away is the nearest non-halal KFC?
He reminds me of bling bling from bum fights.... it's amazing that when these people watch themselves on footage they do not see anything wrong .... Bloody sad ....
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Is quite stupid and ludicrous.
Do you have any evidence that meat prepared in this fashion is either any healthier or safer than prepared other ways?
Anyway I couldn't give a fig if Muslins want to eat bugs and dirt off the floor. I just don't believe I should be disadvantaged in the availability of food because of someone elses crazy beliefs.
* Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by Alien, a Terminator, and the Predator.
cro69 (11-01-11),HoochDaTank (11-01-11)
If this particular KFC is a franchise , then i assume the owner would need permission from KFC head office to change the set menu. he may have been granted this permission .
Then perhaps the store promotional material could make mention of a "Limited Menu" so that punters know to go to another store.
* Bill Paxton is the only actor to be killed by Alien, a Terminator, and the Predator.
Go there a lot, do you?
Then why are you bothered by it?
You Sir should get a job at Fairfax, you have a marvellous ability to extract a single sentence from a monologue and represent it out of context. Congratulations and please go to the top off the class.
If you read past the first sentence of the post, where you extracted the one sentence from, you would find it was a lead-in for comparison between "old World" and "new World" practices. The "old World" methods do work, and they have done for many years in regions where higher education and hygiene are otherwise non-existent... areas also lacking in things like cold-storage, clean running water, and sewerage. Thankfully, in most of the "new World" (including Australia) we don't have to rely on the "old World" methods because we have a higher level of understanding and far more advanced facilities.
I also don't give a fig (which BTW are both Halal and Kosher) who eats what or how they prepare it. However, I do care about the proliferation of ignorance and how violent arguments are brewing between the red-necks and the cave-dwellers... as they seem to be equally endowed with ignorance. Honestly, it's like watching hillbillies argue about who Pa is!
Comparing KFC to food is silly enough as it is, getting upset because you can't get an extra slice of smoked grease with it... "wull that's just plum stee-range there bee-haive-yer Jethro!"
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#I don't stereotype people, not like most of you do.#
z1gg33 (11-01-11)
lol! EOF
If you feed ducks at a pond, chances are your bound to feed a goose or two without even knowing it.
I own a pharmacy and was shocked to find out last year that a brand of Vitamin D3 we stock became Halal approved. I contacted the manufacturer and was told this was a marketing ploy. When I enquired what they paid to have the symbol placed on the label, they said it was nothing (which I have since found out to be incorrect).
I decided straight away to not stock the product but have since restocked it due local doctors recommending patients to take it. Most customers will take other brands when I show them the Halal labelling.
I'm not a racist and believe in equality for all but do not like it when we are dictated to by minority groups.
softel (16-01-11)
I'd be interested to hear how you feel having a small symbol printed on packaging somehow makes you feel you're being 'dictated to' by anyone. Is this REALLY a rational reaction from someone I'd assume to be an educated person?
Did you have a similar shitfit over barcodes, metrication and the decimal currency system?
Why should our products cost more to cover labelling that only appeals to a very small number of people. And yes, the price of these tablets have gone up. Most of my customers are elderly and many are repat (those who served in the armed forces in Australia, New Zealand and England) and a very high percentage of those are against this type of labelling. How do I know? I talk to my customers. I listen to what they say. I respond to their needs.
Why don't these companies do the same thing for jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, Hindus or to take it the extreme, Christians on good friday?
What the hell does barcodes, metrication and decimal have to do with anything? I fail to see the connection. These were a way of modernising Australia and benefitted all of us (though I'm sure there were some who were against it when they first came in). How does the Halal symbol do that?
Tradesman (17-01-11)
The fact that there's a highway to hell and a stairway to heaven says a lot about the anticipated traffic flow.
Of course prices go up, they very rarely go down. Do you actually know the cost increase per bottle/packet that was directly related to the Halal label?
Nice attempt to inject an emotive twitch with the 'served in the armed forces' line, but whether one section of the population has a particular opinion has absolutely no relevance to whether putting a tiny logo on a bottle is 'dictating to' you.Most of my customers are elderly and many are repat (those who served in the armed forces in Australia, New Zealand and England) and a very high percentage of those are against this type of labelling.
Perhaps beecause no such labelling exists. If it did, the pharmcos would be all over it, since it's about money...or do you REALLY think the halal labelling is done for an reason other than to increase market share?Why don't these companies do the same thing for jews, Seventh-Day Adventists, Hindus or to take it the extreme, Christians on good friday?
There was a consequent rise in labelling costs. Funny though, because it didn't have a religious connotation, nobody got on their high horse about discrimination when it happened.What the hell does barcodes, metrication and decimal have to do with anything? I fail to see the connection.
I'll guess we'll have to agree to disagree. At least in our country there is freedom of speech allowing for this type of discussion to occur. You're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine. At least I don't have to worry about you (or me doing to you) sending a bomb to my home and/or shop because we don't agree on the same thing - and no, I'm not saying all Muslims are terrorists, or the government stopping any form of open discussion.
So there's no evidence to support your claim that halal pricing was actually responsible for any price rise? No problem, that's what I was getting at.
Please don't take it personally - I'm no fan of any religion or any other make-beleive crap, but I'm also not a fan of people who use unsubstantiated supposition to justify bias while protesting they don't actually have that bias. FFS, if someone doesn't like muslims, buddhists, mongolians or people with blue eyes, why can't they just SAY SO? Why pretend your opinion is based on logical thinking, and why keep making up reasons? I just don't get why people bother with this, and not just admit they just hate the pricks?
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