Sure its kosher?
Animals rights folks protesting kosher slaughter isn’t anything new, but today’s story in the New York Times shows that in one case, protesters may be on to something:
An animal-rights group released grisly undercover videotapes today showing cows in a major kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa staggering and bellowing in seeming agony long after their throats were cut.[...]
A spokesman for Shechita UK, a British lobbying group that defends ritual slaughter against the protests of animal-rights activists, said after watching the tape with a rabbi and a British shochet that he “felt queasy,” and added,”I don’t know what that is, but it’s not shechita.”
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Asked how prominent authorities could disagree over such a fundamental issue, he replied: “Well, we don’t have a pope. You do find rabbis who interpret things in different ways.”
(Note: This is kind of gory article for the Times, but interesting if you eat kosher, shop kosher, and care about how its done.)
[Update] Related links: The PETA video. Seattle PI story. Eco-kashrut.
