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Originally Posted by Taf
My wife's home town in France used to have about 11 local butchers, with only one of them halal. Now they are ALL halal butchers despite the local population not having anyway near a muslim majority. The original butchers went out of business as meat prices rocketted, but it seems halal butchers have an easy form of credit to move in and buy up the busineses. And all the local restaurants and fast food outlets now serve ONLY halal meats (I wonder how they get halal ham and peperoni for their pizzas  ). And now the 2 local supermarkets have halal sections, well distanced from the pork section of course. ASDA here does too, but only in muslim-heavy areas. |
A lot of places have halal meat because it tastes no different and it's just easier to make it all halal than not. I find it odd that these places no longer serve pork as if they don't have a Muslim majority in the town then they are losing money as a result.