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Originally Posted by bitontheslide

If standard practices for those of particular religions result in a higher hygiene risk, it is very important that the issue is highlighted if they are in the food preparation industry. I don't think we should be excusing hygiene issues in those circumstances, in the same way we don't excuse anyone else with dodgy hygiene involved in food preparation.

Of course not, but what you are on the verge of doing here is exactly what the Mail was trying to incite - tarring all people of certain cultures and religious beliefs with the same brush, trying to make people fear that this kind of practice is widespread because of these people's cultures. Just as other food establishments run by people of various cultures and backgrounds are fined or closed down for other breaches of hygiene standards, I'm quite sure that not every takeaway surviving curry is wiping their **** in the food, it's few and far between.

Originally Posted by Marsh.

You're calling this guy washing his filthy arse with his bare hands and then handling food in a restaurant a "religious culture"????

No, but the Mail is. Seriously what is so difficult about this that people are failing to understand?