Tilly
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General food in this case means what the locals are used to eating and drinking, ie PORK & ALCOHOL. Now you are back on ignore, you silly, pompous pedant.Some people like to do more than just survive. And if there was local demand for haggis, a sensible shop owner would stock haggis. But this time it's pork and alcohol.It is discrimination of christians though and atheists or non-muslims in general who dont observe halal laws, i didnt know the background of the story first.
BULLSHIT. There is no "discrimination" in *NOT DOING* something. That's patently absurd.
You dont need to have a halal supermarket to not eat pork or drink wine though, they can sell halal food and still sell alcohol muslims buy halal food and christians buy alcohol and pork but if they dont sell alcohol and pork then elderly christian people need to walk alot to the next food store and this is discrimination.
No it is not. That's INSANELY stupid. You don't have a "right" to haggis just because I have a food store. Neither pork nor wine is required for survival. Guess what Junior -- you can't always get what you want.
Hence my question about what defines "general food". If everybody has what they want and there's one oddball who has to have caviar --- do I have to carry caviar? Where do you draw the line?
On the other hand, from the little we're told in the article this store (which is after all a mini mart) carries different types of food --- is that not "general food"? If it carried, say, only rice, then that would not be the case. Far as I can see they carry more than just rice.
Finally -- alcohol is not a food.