Peter McIlvenna

And this has all been happening

under the noses of different governors.

Obviously, the big growth has been in New York, it's been in California, and it's been in Texas.

Those are three epicenters of Muslim population, but also the demand and rise of halal.

My issue, and certainly there is a distinction between kosher and halal, I wouldn't even begin to touch on it with Benji listening, but

One of the issues is that halal is very much religious.

It is prayed over and a proportion of the money in the halal food industry goes to further Islam.

That should be a concern to anyone who is not Muslim or a Christian.

But the second thing is choice.

I know when I go around London, if I'm in a Jewish area,

I can choose not to eat kosher food if I so wish, because it's not as if every food establishment is in effect forced to only offer that.

Where when I'm in a Muslim area, which is most areas in London, you don't really have a choice anymore.

The vast majority of takeaways, pizza outlets, chicken outlets, whatever they are, have that little halal sticker, which is often clear

in the window, so you would actually miss it because you wouldn't notice it.

And yet all the meat in that establishment is halal.

That is simply not the case with Judaism because Judaism wants to provide for its own community.

It's not missionary.

It's not expansionist.

So that is not a concern to anyone

Who does not want to partake of food which is kosher?