Cheese eating surrender monkeys: Diggers issued halal-certified Army rations
Almost two years ago this website broke the news that the Australian Army was going halal certified.
Half of all combat ration pack configurations were to be prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary requirements, even though there were only about 100 Muslims in the entire 50,000+ strong Defence Force. Four menus were to contain meat that had been certified as sacrificed to Allah. The other were two were to be vegetarian options that are naturally halal anyway.
Just so you know, under the new ration plan which was supposedly designed to combat ‘menu fatigue’, ordinary Diggers have less choice of ordinary meals than before. That’s how diversity works.
The media frenzy regarding the halal-certified Army prompted a back down of sorts from the Chief of Army, who wrote on the Defence website in early 2016 that:
Combat ration packs currently used by the ADF are not prepared to halal or kosher specifications.
Of course, he was right. At the time rations were not halal or kosher.
Now they are halal but I have not yet seen any kosher packs kicking around.
And not just halal, but distinctly Arabic as well. These rations were handed out to infantry Diggers this week and you can see the halal-certified processed cheese can with Arabic labelling below:



Shortly afterwards my phone lit up.
Diggers are insulted by halal-certified rations. And they are outraged that they’re being fed them with Arabic language plastered all over the packs.
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