Liverpool City Council union workers chanted “Put some pork on your fork” and held up a plastic pig in a protest directed at the region’s Muslim mayor last week ahead of a fiery council meeting that ended with police being called.
Islam considers pork to be haram, meaning forbidden. Laws in the Koran ban eating the animal, which is considered spiritually and physically harmful. The protest leader later added: “We’re doing a commercial,” referencing the Australian pork industry’s long-running marketing campaign. Steve Donley, a manager at the United Services Union who was at the protest, conceded the chant was inappropriate, but accused the mayor of stoking racism in the region by posting the video on social media.“There’s no doubt it’s happened … but I didn’t hear it. If I heard it, I would have pulled it up,” Donley said.
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