This news may be hard to digest...
For three years, a butcher in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, deceived his Muslim customers by selling them pork falsely presented as calf.
The butcher has reportedly sold 3.1 tons of pork making his customers believe that the meat is Halal, according to the Swiss version of 20Minutes, which revealed this scandal.
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The manager of the butchery was sentenced to 6 months in jail and a fine 18,000 Swiss francs (about $18,680) “for fraud and misrepresentation.”
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The butcher was deceiving his customers double fold. On the one hand, Muslims who were buying meat at his shop did not know it was pork, which is forbidden according to the teachings of Islam. On the other hand, he made substantial profits, since pork is much cheaper than the calf on the meat market.
There's more at the link.
Now that the calf substitution has been re-veal-ed, I'm sure his customers aren't happy with him. This will probably call for religious re-meat-iation . . .
Peter
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Peter: You're punny. Groan.
OTOH, I bet the religion of peace will try to kill this guy. Sigh.
If he isn't put into the Swiss equivalent of Witness Protection he will be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life. 3 years worth of customers want him dead.
In light of what the Koran says about pork... even eating it without knowledge probably has some implications..
Legend has it that Gen. Patton had all his troops ammo coated in pig fat. The psychological impact was huge. Fight them with their own belief limitations.
Won't they all be unclean from this point on? Will their families disavow them. What are the real ramification of this to Muslims?
I find it hard to believe this. Pork and beef taste quite different. Yes the customers might have been unfamiliar with the taste of pork but if you're expecting beef it would be "off".
It also cooks differently.
I suppose if it was only ever eaten in small pieces in a lot of highly spiced sauce, or if he mixed it and sold a beef-pork mix as beef it might not be noticed for a while.
I wonder what the penalty would have been if it was just angry customers that were not Moslem and hence it would not have been religious. Would he have received this for selling non-kosher as kosher?
Also, I hope the "Swiss version of 20Minutes" has not yet been corrupted as the American one was.
Veal, it tastes like bacon!
It looks as if he wasn't selling the pork as beef but as veal.
Oh Bless this man! Can I donate to his legal defense fund? Help pay to relocate him to the US?
That was Blackjack Pershing, in the Philippines. The Brits also had a slight problem in 1857 when their muzloid colonial enforcers got told the Snider-Enfield cartridges were greased with pork fat....doesn't seem to have slowed the rebels down much. Personally, I'd make entry to my country conditional upon wiping one's bottom on the kloran, spitting on the saudi flag under one's feet, and wolfing down a bacon burger....on camera, posted instantly on the web.
Peter, really??? Sigh... and I agree with M, it is hard to believe they didn't 'know' the difference. It's fairly obvious if you just look at the meat!
Be on the lookout for a number of possible Suidaecides in the future.
No, that legend was from British India, in the time of the RAJ. The Army issued new unitized paper cartridges (holding bullet, powder, and the paper as a wad) coated in wax for waterproofing. The anti British forces put out that the coating was a mix of beef tallow (prohibited to Hindus) and pork fat ( prohibited to Muslims) to cause problems.
A similar and possibly valid threat was made by Arthur MacArthur, Marshall of the Phillipines, and father of Douglas, who, when fighting the Moros (Muslim S Phillipinos) ordered bullets greased with pig fat, and dead Moros to be buried in the skin of a pig, with their feet towards Mecca. They stopped fighting.
John in Indy
the mirror image of this happened in LA 40 years back. Wongs Kosher Burritos sold burritos with non kosher beef. a rabbi was consulted. that rabbi explained that the meat was represented as kosher, so the customers did not violate the law. The person who falsely represented the beef as kosher absorbed all the sin.
Kind of a boaring story. The Muslims have a legitimate beef with the butcher, I'd say. He should probably take it on the lamb; I'd certainly be chicken to stay in town after this kind of incident. I wonder who squealed on him?
That's nothing compared to what muzzies do to us Kefirs....
A Swiss butcher in the German speaking area of Switzerland wasn't defrauding his Swiss customers, no thrifty Zurich Hausfrau would ever be fooled. The inspector wasn't fooled. If you're paying top price for Kalbsfleisch and get pork you're unhappy, and the Swiss never give an dishonest shopkeeper a second chance, and the shopkeepers all know it. Rip-offs in Switzerland are for tourists, foreigners, refugees, Italian rich kids in boarding school and other undesirables. The girls working behind the counter of the butcher shop certainly knew, because they had to keep the meats separate. The Swiss customers probably mostly knew, because the nationally chauvinistic Swiss love to complain about inferior foreigners to each other. This would have been too good of a story not to make the rounds. As long as no Swiss were harmed n the making of this fraud, it could have gone on indefinitely. The shop probably screwed up and sold their porkveal to a Swiss, who complained in the right quarters and ratted him out to the state prosecutor. This is a country that advertised for citizens to ratt out their neighbors for setting the thermostat above eighteen degrees in the winter. Beautiful, soulless place, if you're rich, speak the language, understand the schwyzerdütsch dialect, and don't mind everyone else minding your business for you. The patron nation of the Karen. Six months in a Swiss Gefängnis (detainment-Lite) for the finagling butcher will probably be work-release with time set aside for family visiting and even shopping. They have lengthy hard labor sentences in the Zuchthaus, but that's for foreigners who rip off Swiss companies and banks.
Rick m
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