Shop bosses axed a tiny pig from a kids' toy farm set - in case it upset Muslim and J

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An angry mum complained to the Early Learning Centre when she found the pig missing and was told it had been removed for "religious reasons".

The mother, named only as Caroline, found there was no porker with the cow, sheep, chicken, horse and dog in the store's HappyLand Goosefeather Farm.

There was an empty sty in the farm set she bought for her daughter's first birthday - and a button that made an oinking noise when pressed.

Missing ... without pig
Missing ... without pig

But after writing to the ELC's customer services she got an email reply admitting the pig had been removed in case it upset Muslim or Jewish parents. Both religions ban the eating of pork because they consider the pig an unclean animal.

Rasher decision ... ELC store
Rasher decision ... ELC store

The email said: "Previously the pig was part of the Goosefeather Farm. However due to customer feedback and religious reasons this is no longer part of the farm."

Furious Caroline yesterday accused the ELC of an astonishing over-reaction. She added: "This is political correctness gone loopy. Surely if someone has an issue with a toy, they don't buy it."

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Astonished parents, including Muslim mums, yesterday agreed with Caroline.

A mum named Safiyyah said on parenting website Netmums: "I'm Muslim and it doesn't bother me. It's just another animal.

"What are the store going to do next? Ban the Peppa Pig cartoon? Stop selling books with pigs in? This is a multi-cultural country."

Fellow Muslim mum Natasha added: "If you don't want your kid playing with a pig toy, simply throw it in the bin. Other kids should not have to suffer." Netmums' founder Siobhan Freegard said: "Removing pigs from farm sets is like introducing 'Baa Baa White Sheep' and calling Christmas 'The Winter Holiday.' Please let common sense prevail."

Alec Suttenwood, chairman of the Anti-Political Correctness group, said the ban was "ridiculous." He added: "Pigs are kept on farms - it is a fact of life."

Stying put ... Goosefeather Farm set with a pig in place
Stying put ... Goosefeather Farm set with a pig in place

ELC said: "The decision to remove the pig was taken in reaction to customer feedback in some parts of the world."

But after The Sun intervened ELC admitted it made a pig's ear of the episode and said the porker will return.

A spokeswoman said: "We recognise that pigs are familiar farm animals - especially for our UK customers.

"We have taken the decision to reinstate the pig and to no longer sell the set in international markets where it might create an issue."


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...e-goes-PC-mad-with-pig-ban.html#ixzz15cT9l6vc

Its a strange strange world we live in master jack.:whistle:
 
Yeah that is a little over the top. I could understand if it was a playset used to identify and promote food but live animals. C'mon.
 
Next thing you know they'll re-edit 'The Three Little Pigs.The wolf will have to find alternative accomodation.
 
If the rest of us can live in a multicultural and multi-religious society and compromise, then so can these idiots.
 
People are toooo ****ing sensitive... it's actually pathetic how the world degenerates over this drivel.

Don't offend anyone, you might get sued, or called a anti-semitic.

TBH they should then get rid of all the pork products at the Pick N Pay (example store), incase they offend any Jewish/Muslims who shop there. If the world was as liberal as I am, we would have world peace.
 
So the pig is in the set, people complain. They take it out, they complain. wtf...
 
Most consumed meat on the planet? Pork. 1 billion+ Chinese can't be wrong, are you not offending them?
 
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Sheesh, that's simple enough isn't it?

Anyone who finds a toy pig offensive is an utter blithering idiot of the highest calibre.

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Unless your parents were both killed in a horrific pig attack or something of that nature.
 
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Stupid people offend me.....

The store manager should have said "tough ****, don't buy it if you don't like it.
 
Oh this is just ridiculous. Wonder how that meeting went and how they rationalised doing something like this? How about "...it might create an issue." ??? Thats one of the biggest problems with the damn world these days, people make an issue out of just about anything, when there really isn't one.

Like Chopper Read would say, these people need to harden the **** up.
 
J0n0 said:
So the pig is in the set, people complain. They take it out, they complain. wtf...
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I dont see where it says in the article that people complained about it in the first place?

Neither muslims nor jews are to blame here, neither complained, its the stupid store that thought it might offend someone?
 
copacetic said:
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Sheesh, that's simple enough isn't it?

Anyone who finds a toy pig offensive is an utter blithering idiot of the highest calibre.

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Unless your parents were both killed in a horrific pig attack or something of that nature.
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Lol. A very relevant edit added in there: horrific pig attack. :)
 
Even if the Jewish or Muslim people find it an unclean animal, it's not as thought the kids are going to be eating the toy piggy.
And even if they did, it's a toy.

I don't think Jews or Muslims dislike pigs per se, they just don't eat them (because they're unclean), so anyone who would complain about a pig toy is quite simply retarded.
 
Lycanthrope said:
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Didnt see that, but even so, it kind of contradicts the line before it where they said:
But after writing to the ELC's customer services she got an email reply admitting the pig had been removed in case it upset Muslim or Jewish parents. Both religions ban the eating of pork because they consider the pig an unclean animal.
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