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A gourmet food website has been criticised for carrying a brand of organic beer named ‘Mandala’ with the image of an Indian goddess on the label. The product is available for sale on the Bien Manger website and is an India Pale Ale, a bitter variety of craft beer.
A UK-based advocacy campaign group took to Twitter on January 11 to demand the recall of the product. “Bien Manger uses sacred image of Hindu Goddess on their beer bottle. @BienManger it’s highly insensitive, disrespectful & hurtful to #Hindus. The Goddess Hindus worship is being used on your beer bottles. We demand you recall all such products & stop further manufacturing of it,” said Insight UK, which described itself as...