Senior Government Figure Calls For Mandatory Pork in School, Government Canteens

by Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart
Mar. 05, 2016

Senior members of German chancellor Angela Merkel's party are calling for pork to be made mandatory in government-controlled canteens, following claims the food was being quietly removed from menus.

Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politicians from Germany's northernmost federal state Schleswig-Holstein are launching the campaign and tabling motions in parliament to preserve pork as a staple foodstuff in the state's canteens. The state, which is the last port of call on the migrant route through central Europe before they break into Scandinavia has seen a significant through-put of migrants in recent years, and the politicians claim changes are being made in error to accommodate this new, Muslim population.

Parliamentary CDU leader Daniel Günther said of the withdrawal of pork from state canteens: "The protection of minorities – including for religious reasons – must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by a false sense of consideration". Mr. Günther argued that tolerance had to work both ways, and that the new Germans would have to learn: "the appreciation and sufferance of other food cultures and lifestyles", reports the Lübecker Nachrichten.

While some schools have already dropped pork as a practical consideration as few if any pupils eat it, Mr. Günther said he wanted to keep it on the menu as "the consumption of pork belongs to our culture".

Regardless, eating bacon or sausages wouldn't be forced on anyone, and CDU colleague Heiner Rickers MP said the party wasn't trying to establish a weekly pork day.

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