We all have our temptations: for some, today’s turkey titillation could become tomorrow’s bacon binging.
From the BBC:
A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.
Rod Adlington’s attempts to imitate the meat, which Muslims cannot eat because of their religion, has seen a Muslim scholar voice concerns that it could lead to people eating real bacon from pork.
Maulana Naveed Ashrafi, a Muslim scholar from Blackburn, said he was concerned as to where eating the turkey bacon rashers could lead to for other Muslims.
“It can ultimately lead to people who only eat halal food ending up eating the real bacon – bacon from pork,” he said.
Kosher turkey “bacon” has been available for years. Orthodox Jews don’t seem to be accidently eating pork because of it.