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This is a very long-winded and wordy way of saying:

"People who distinguish between things will get their way because people who don't distinguish between things rarely care."

Good example from the article: Halal food, non-halal eaters will eat halal, but halal eaters will only eat halal.

So lets just make all things halal.

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It's not a very good example, because making food halal requires businesses to change the way they do things. One of the things required for food to be halal (AFAIK) is that the person doing the slaughtering must be Muslim. I can see how this requirement would prevent most businesses from "making all things halal", just by itself.

Besides, France's population is 5 to 10 percent Muslim, which negates the "three to four percent" 'dictating' claim of the article, especially because, last time I visited France, most meats I saw weren't halal.

My understanding of halal is that an easy way for food to be halal is to be vegetarian (in the ovo-lacto sense) and to contain no alcohol.

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