Originally Posted by Tim1975

Fundamentally it is no one else's business why someone want to avoid halal meat and no one else's business why someone chooses to avoid non-halal meat.

We could start analysing the rationality or stupidity behind dietary choices, but I think it probably best all round for everyone, including those with religious-based dietary requirement that we don't go down that road. Questioning people's choices like that however stupid you may find them is rarely constructive and bad manners at least.

I have no problem with people choosing Halal or with people choosing non-halal. And BA can respond to market forces as it sees fit.

What I do have a problem with is that we are in a society when if a preference (for food, a particular way of dressing, a way of educating their children or something else) is expressed as a religious thing it is more likely to be accommodated than if it is for another reason.

If someone thinks something is important to them then we might try and accommodate them out of flexibility, politeness or tolerance or as a commercial decision, or we might choose to not-accommodate them.

Religious preferences should carry no more or less weight than non-religious ones.