Meat Dept Manager: "Why is the halal meat not selling?"
Posted on 09/15/2014 6:00:44 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Food shelves can be a life line for people dealing with poverty and hunger.
But many in the Somali-American community say finding a food shelf that caters to their religious dietary restrictions is almost impossible.
“Some food shelves are trying to meet the need, but some of them already got canned beans that have already been mixed with pork — and there is a literacy issue here,” said community activist Fartun Weli.
A group of first-generation Somali Americans says they need help in developing a food shelf that specializes in healthy foods that do not contain pork or pork byproducts.
“It’s about human rights also, basic human rights to get the proper food and also healthy food,” said Imam Hassan Mohamud.
With signs in hand, they marched to the Hennepin County commissioners’ office to ask Peter McLaughlin for help. Most live in his district and feel he can help them help themselves.
McLaughlin and the group disagree over the availability of halal or kosher food at food shelves in Minnesota.
He did say they would need to petition all county commissioners for the money to make this food shelf a reality.
“The place to deal with this is going to be within the budget … our budget for next year,” McLaughlin said.
To get the food shelf up and running will cost $150,000, but McLaughlin says there is no plan on how much would be needed to sustain it.
The group hopes to present a proposal to the county commissioners during its budget meeting on Nov 13.
I had to go back and re-read the article because I had to shake my head and say what?
They have to start and a new food bank because some cannot read labels in English? Do I have that right?
How much would it cost to put a sign up in their language that says Pork?
Something shy of $150,000? Something smells and its not pork!
I volunteer at our local food shelf, and I estimate that at least 40-50% of the people coming in are Muslims.
They come in also for their kids’ school supplies. Then they come in for the toys at Christmas, and they are not Christians.
I am getting a bit tired of all this expectation that they have of free handouts, and then they demand we accommodate their needs. They should develop their own food shelf, IMHO.
What’s next? If they can’t read the road signs, we have to build a new road?
Who’s flippin’ country is this? Send the SOBs home.
There’s a reason that the majority of them live in Keith (PBUH) Ellison’s district.
I’m getting really sick of this crap. Go home and do America a favor.
Man this is tantamount to the shite in the bowl complaining about the paper and the view above. My oh my. Where did we go off the rails when the shites from the toilets of the world have the audacity to impose their crap on us? There is a reckoning comin.
Also got me in hot water, but laughing destroyed her aim.
/johnny
I say, let this group of Muslim anti-American terrorists-in-training, head on off to sandland and start their own halal "food shelf" their with their own money, not OURS!
how on earth did a state like MN get so many of these people, was it Clinton what brought them over here, or was this just time and immigration?
Meat Dept Manager: "Why is the halal meat not selling?"
my thoughts too, plus I was wondering how on earth is there so many of them up there?
is it not child abuse to not feed your child all day, and yet these people do this for a month?
I grew up in that kind of family. Weakness or difference was only going to make you a target of harassment and you better learn to give it back.
I used to harass the hell out of my friend in a wheelchair and I was pretty ruthless with some deaf friends too.
Liberal Lutheran churches helped to lead the charge.
I agree, odd for a mostly arid to semi arid kind of peoples to end up around so many lakes and farms,, and loose welfare networks. Kind of like Detroit and nearby IslamaLand Uhhh Dearborn..
The Progressive agenda never changes..
It marches on as its flag bearer (s) falls in battle or dies of old age
The best invasion is a silent one.
The camel is in the tent.
just seems strange why there is so many of them there, plus coming from where they did to a place like MN where its freezing is odd.
I remember Clinton bring some of them to ME back in the day , but not sure if he is responsible for this too.
So, shop at the local kosher deli.
or are they wanting free food?
“The camel is in the tent.”
And taking a dump.
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