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I don't care what the reason is or who follows the law. The most unhealthy thing to me is deriding anyone's religious beliefs or dietary rules. One can certainly remain firm about the conviction that this or that isn't sensible or even is untrue, but announcing that someone's closely held tradition is a load of poo will do more to destroy the cultural multiplicity that makes the world interesting than McDonalds could do with several billions worth of adverts. I personally apply THAT conviction to every side of the possible issues. Iced food doesn't kill you, cheese on fish doesn't either, and cold beer, raw green beans as well as all the food combination stories-- let them be. I do not want to live in a world where spagbol is forbidden even if I think is is generally mistaken. Italians are out there trying to fight the use of the word "prosciutto" as applied to this type of ham made in any other country, but all it means is cured ham. Prosciutto di Parma, or San Daniele, OK, they are specific things. I get the furor over parmigiano because any other cheese of that type not made in the correct area is called grana, so it is legitimate perhaps not to say it is from Parma if it isn't. But when you see what the Italians make when copying foods from other countries, they expose their clay feet. Vegetarianism is the same to me. I know people who decided not to eat meat, and I do cook for them without a single scrap of flesh. At least half of them don't bother to learn how to get adequate protein from the plant world. Why should they pressure me or you to consider meat eating inhumane when they haven't come up with an alternative that works even though the information is out there? Morality doesn't come into it. Cleanliness and lack of cruelty do. As long as we cannot dissolution for ourselves we have the right and duty to see that those who do it for us do it correctly. Both Kosher and Hallal are pretty much a guarantee that good standards are followed. Nothing else is offered so far. Animal rights folks ought to be wroking on that, I believe. If they somehow get meat eating banned, what will happen to the domesticated animals? Will they follow them with scoopers as they wander in search of sustenance through the streets? Will they voluntarily stand watch at crossings to avoid accidents? I have not heard a word about what their plan is if the succeed.