{"id":6805,"date":"2008-05-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/09\/beef-off-the-menu-to-avoid-offending-hindus-says-british-airways\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:00:00","slug":"beef-off-the-menu-to-avoid-offending-hindus-says-british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/09\/beef-off-the-menu-to-avoid-offending-hindus-says-british-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Beef Off the Menu To Avoid Offending Hindus, Says British Airways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23483255-details\/British+Airways+takes+beef+off+the+menu+to+avoid+offending+Hindus\/article.do\">www.thisislondon.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, UK, May 9, 2008: British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about its &#8220;religious restrictions&#8221;. BA&#8217;s second-biggest long-haul market is to India, where the majority Hindu population do not eat beef because of their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to scrap the nation&#8217;s favourite fare was described as a &#8220;great shame&#8221; by the English Beef and Lamb Executive, formerly part of the Meat and Livestock Commission. A spokesman said: &#8220;It is regrettable that Britain&#8217;s flag carrier is not proposing to serve Britain&#8217;s national dish.<\/p>\n<p>The Hindu Council UK said: &#8220;The Hindu community will welcome this decision and the news it has been made partly because Hindus don&#8217;t eat beef. &#8220;Hindus have a great deal of respect for British culture. That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BA also said that cost is not a reason for the decision to stop serving beef.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thisislondon.co.uk LONDON, UK, May 9, 2008: British Airways has taken beef off the menu for economy passengers amid concerns about,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}