Pork Politics: Why Some Danes Want Pig Meat Required On Menus

Short form: Some Danes are getting sick and tired of immigrants telling them what they can’t eat, so some of them are proposing laws where 20% of all menu items would have to have pork in them. Consider that, in contrast, one Danish hospital was reported to serve on halal meat, even to those people who *don’t* want extra suffering in their food (see Dhabihah), I guess it should be obvious that a backlash was bound to happen.

Dhabihah: One of the rules of halal food-critter prep is that the critter must be alive AND AWARE when you slash it’s throat. No zapping it unconscious with a big-ass taser or whacking it with a captive bolt pistol or outright lopping its head off, no, to be right with Allah you gotta assure agony. This process is pretty much identical to Kosher slaughter (Shechita), but I don’t recall too many Danish hospitals enforcing kosher-only rules.