
{"id":4127,"date":"2016-01-12T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/?p=4127\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T21:16:06","slug":"minister-retracts-pork-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/minister-retracts-pork-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister retracts pork story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integration Minister Inger St\u00f8jberg has apologised for claiming that a kindergarten in Aalborg, Denmark\u2019s third-biggest city, refuses to allow children to eat pork, writes seven59.dk and b.dk.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech to local Liberal Party members in Frederikshavn, Friday, the Minister told an anecdote about a couple she knew who had relocated from the Copenhagen area to Aalborg and were looking for an \u2018ethnically diverse\u2019 kindergarten for their daughter Sofia \u2013 however, after finding a suitable place they declined after being told that Sofia wouldn\u2019t be allowed to have pork in her lunch box.<\/p>\n<p>The story was repeated on Facebook but challenged by a member of Aalborg City Council, who said there are no food restrictions on child care institutions governed by the local authority and accused the Minister of making the story up.<\/p>\n<h2>Staff: Never banned pork<\/h2>\n<p>Ms St\u00f8jberg declined to respond yesterday but acknowledged in a statement that as she couldn\u2019t fully substantiate the story she shouldn\u2019t have told it. She wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a story I was told at a private party by people who I trust. I can now name the kindergarten as \u2018Pilehaven\u2019 but I have no proof that the staff told them not to put pork in the child\u2019s lunch box. I shouldn\u2019t have repeated the story without double-checking the facts with Aalborg City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berlingske contacted the Pilehaven kindergarten Monday where staff strongly rejected that they have ever banned pork.<\/p>\n<h2>Anecdotes<\/h2>\n<p>The Liberals have previously been criticised for employing unsubstantiated anecdotes to support party policy. During last year\u2019s election campaign, then opposition leader Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen cited a welfare recipient who had refused a job at manufacturing company Panorama, but the allegation was never proved<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b.dk\/nationalt\/stoejberg-beklager-usand-anekdote-om-hamburgerryg\">article on the Danish news site B.dk here<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mx.dk\/nyheder\/danmark\/story\/27437099\">mx.dk here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>universitypost@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a good story? We would like to <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/how-share-stories-university-post\" target=\"_blank\">hear from you<\/a>. 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She wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a story I was told at a private party by people who I trust. I can now name the kindergarten as \u2018Pilehaven\u2019 but I have no proof that the staff told them not to put pork in the child\u2019s lunch box. I shouldn\u2019t have repeated the story without double-checking the facts with Aalborg City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Berlingske contacted the Pilehaven kindergarten Monday where staff strongly rejected that they have ever banned pork.<\/p>\n<h2>Anecdotes<\/h2>\n<p>The Liberals have previously been criticised for employing unsubstantiated anecdotes to support party policy. During last year\u2019s election campaign, then opposition leader Lars L\u00f8kke Rasmussen cited a welfare recipient who had refused a job at manufacturing company Panorama, but the allegation was never proved<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.b.dk\/nationalt\/stoejberg-beklager-usand-anekdote-om-hamburgerryg\">article on the Danish news site B.dk here<\/a> and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mx.dk\/nyheder\/danmark\/story\/27437099\">mx.dk here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>universitypost@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a good story? We would like to <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/article\/how-share-stories-university-post\" target=\"_blank\">hear from you<\/a>. 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