&gt;Apartheid was racial segregation in South Africa and doesn&#x27;t appear to apply here.<p>I brought that up because I think that, for instance, having one kind of meat for the minority and another for the majority, is not _in the long run_ very different than the minority being forced to sit on different benches, drink from different fountains, use different entrances etc.<p>If a minority wants to eat kosher&#x2F;halal and we make it harder for them to do that, they &#x27;re forced to have their own shops, their own butchers, their own restaurants and so on. Wheras, if there&#x27;s more halal&#x2F;kosher meat to go around, the majority, like myself, is unaffected, or possibly enjoys the positive contribution of the minority to the life of the community.