[eadmund]

> The comparator would be eating pork in a Islamic State.

Not really. Mohammedans don’t revere the pig; they think it is filthy.

> The ban on beef is not intolerance, but a form of tolerance.

That’s nonsense on stilts. It is textbook intolerance.

Beef is an absolutely delicious meat (so’s pork too, by the way). Hamburgers, steaks, roast beef, beef stew, cottage pie: to a very great extent beef is what food is.