Posted on 09/06/2022 9:10:37 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A public school district in southeastern Minnesota has banned pork offerings on all of its menus to accommodate Muslim students.
Faribault Public Schools is no longer offering pork in its school cafeterias after a prior board meeting where concerns about the pork offerings were raised by the local chapter of the Minnesota Parent Union.
Members of the Minnesota Parent Union and two managers from Sodexo, a food and facilities company, spoke about the significant menu change in a video last month, which was shared by the district.
Activist Tiffini Flynn Forslund had met Sodexo district manager Lori McMahon at the school board meeting, where they exchanged contact information and agreed to work together on removing pork from the menu.
“We didn’t have to go through red tape. We didn’t have to shut down the meeting. We had complete cohesiveness and there is no pork in the menu for the entire Faribault school district. So this is wonderful when the Muslim culture does not eat pork,” Forslund said in the video.
“They changed recipes. They would love to hire Somali representation,” she continued. “And so this is just a wonderful, welcoming, culture-competent [sic] to move forward, to graduate kids. When everybody’s happy, eating well, working together, that is a win for the community.”
McMahon called their collaborative efforts “like the road to an amazing journey.”
“One of our goals in partnership with the district this year was to make sure that everyone had a seat at the table and felt comfortable at the table,” she said. “We thought we were doing a pretty good job with that, but pretty good isn’t good enough. We have to do the best job we can, and make sure and commit to the fact that there’s no pork on the menu.”
Faribault Public Schools, located in a city of over 24,000 people, serves around 3,500 students at all grade levels.
The city of Faribault is estimated to be between 75 and 80% white, based on previous census data and current demographic trends, but it has a notable Somali Muslim minority.
Somali refugees first came to the area nearly 30 years ago, and there are now approximately 4,000 Somali residents in Faribault.
Was the muslim response “ This is wonderful indeed. But, it’s just the start. Soon, we will transform this culture to ours. We will even give the Americans an opportunity to become muslim, or die.”
I don’t see them doing this for Jewish students. Never have, that I know of.
Gee, could it be because it’s OUR burden to fulfill our religious requirements, not YOURS?!
In the brief periods I went to public school in the USA, I brown bagged my lunch. Because I’m not a moocher, nor is it fair or correct to impose religious observance on others.
The essential difference: Jews do not mind pork being on the menu, as long as there is something else there besides pork. Muslims are offended by anybody else eating pork, even if they have other choices.
Exactly right.
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So Jews don’t eat pork either but apparently these so sensitive jerks didn’t care about that over the last how many decades.
Yeah. Don’t go giving them any ideas...
😉
Next up nothing but unflavored gruel as to not offend anyone. No meat for the vegetarians. No dairy or eggs for the vegans. No beef for the Hindus. No pork for the Jews. No carbs for the paleo diet kids. Just non offensive unflavored gruel. “You want MORE?”
i would be eating ham and cheese with pork rinds for the whole year.
What about making sure the kitchens are suitable for kashrut? No cheeezburgers for you!
What we know is that the banning of pork will not be enough. That is just a start. Next up will be demands that the food served be halal. That probably will mean only certain vendors are on the o.k. list. Someone will profit from this.
I'm the idiot who did that!
Another reason to homeschool, you can eat pork without offending MORONS, I mean Muslimes. Let’s bend over for in small majority. I guess we should or they might bomb us...
“Only muzzlimes. Who would just as soon slit their throats in their sleep.”
That’s exactly why they get accommodations when they demand them, and other groups do not.
But Muslims do NOT have to eat the pork. How long before women are urged to wear a burka?
No. That would be Bush Sr.
Pork tenderloin with port wine....
Pork with cherry and port wine....
Why not just give them a building to blow up or .....
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