As I learn a little more about the story, it looks more and more like a classic broken gov story. Think it was yesterday, the agricultural body for Paris and its region put out a statement in which they make clear that the two slaughter plants situated in the region uses the process giving the ritual character to the products that has caused the outrage and protest. Several farmers of the region have complained to their Rep without any success about the issue forcing them to drive several hundred miles in order to find a plant not using the incriminated process allowing them to sell directly their production to customers refusing to shop in supermarkets accused of being flooded with the unlabeled incriminated meat. The gov speaking through the Secretary for Agriculture responded with the promise that every "animal ritual killing" will be matched with an order form, a system in place that has proved to be not working. As the tensions escalate and the outrage spread, the Gov failure to give any number and inability to describe the products concerned, the tracking system used to know where and how the incriminated products are sold fuel the speculation about the restaurants and supermarkets in Paris and its region suspected to use these products hiding their ritual character from the consumer. No doubt that the controversy has to do with the presidential race just beginning nonetheless the lack of transparence as well as the insane character of hiding to the consumer the ritual character of products on sale in supermarkets and used in restaurants are the sign of a broken government.

Promises of more government control on plants adding costs for the tax payer will probably fail to reassure the tricked consumers when the mandatory labeling of the ritual character of the process used is clearly their demand.

The political party that revealed the story through its candidate Mrs Le Pen has today declared that up to 23% of the meat production was ritual and spread all over the country promising lawsuit and more protest.