{"id":9064,"date":"2010-06-18T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2010-06-18T11:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T15:23:03","slug":"the-slippery-slope-to-real-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-slippery-slope-to-real-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"The slippery slope to real bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our temptations: for some, today\u2019s turkey titillation could become tomorrow\u2019s bacon binging.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/england\/coventry_warwickshire\/8745812.stm\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by producing bacon-style rashers from halal-slaughtered turkeys.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rod Adlington&#8217;s attempts to imitate the meat, which Muslims cannot eat because of their religion, has seen a Muslim scholar voice concerns that it could lead to people eating real bacon from pork.<\/p>\n<p>Maulana Naveed Ashrafi, a Muslim scholar from Blackburn, said he was concerned as to where eating the turkey bacon rashers could lead to for other Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It can ultimately lead to people who only eat halal food ending up eating the real bacon &#8211; bacon from pork,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have our temptations: for some, today\u2019s turkey titillation could become tomorrow\u2019s bacon binging. From the BBC: A Coventry farmer has insisted he is reacting to demand from traders in trying to give Muslims a taste of pork by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-slippery-slope-to-real-bacon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[457,2178],"class_list":["post-9064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-bacon","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}