It’s a grandiloquent moral to draw from the packaging on supermarket yoghurt, but ignoring faiths won’t make the future pasteurised The German supermarket chain Lidl has been caught removing the crosses off a picture of a Greek island used to sell cheese. The packaging on its “Greek” range of foods shows the gorgeous blue domed churches of the island of Santorini – but only their domes. The crosses which in real life surmount them have been digitally excised. The company claims this is part of a deliberate policy to remove all religious symbols from their packaging, in case it’s divisive. The usual suspects are insinuating that Muslim symbols would be treated differently, though there’s no evidence that this is actually the case. Continue reading...
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