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December 5, 2004: PETA Calls On Iowa To Prosecute Rubashkin
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

From PETA: Des Moines, Iowa — Following its recent seven-week undercover investigation of AgriProcessors, Inc., a meat plant located in Postville, PETA is calling on Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Patty Judge to institute legal proceedings against the company for violations...

December 5, 2004: What Good Kosher Slaughter Is Like
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Shechita UK has published statements from experts on the humaneness of correctly done kosher slaughter. Note that both Shechita UK and Dr. Grandin, along with many other experts, have condemned the method of slaughter used in the Rubashkin slaughterhouse in...

December 5, 2004: Nathan Lewin Confirms: PETA=Nazis
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The noted Washington, DC-based attorney, Nathan Lewin, the attorney for AgriProcessors/Rubashkin, was on Zev Brenner's TalkLine radio show tonight. I was unable to get sound using three different browsers and several media players, but I called in anyway. Briefly, I...

December 5, 2004: What Gives Us The Right To Eat Animals? The Answer, From Chabad.org
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The Hasidic perspective on slaughter from Chabad.org: Babylonian Talmud, Baba Metzia 85a: Rabbi Yehuda HaNassi was a perfect tzaddik, yet he suffered great pain. How did it begin? Through a deed of his. He was walking through the marketplace when...

December 4, 2004: Talmudic Proof To Support Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen?
Comments: 16 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Here is a summary of the section of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Gittin, page 70b mentioned below. Please note that: In the first instance, the slaughtered man's bill of divorce is valid, because he was not touched after the slaughter...

December 4, 2004: What Science Says About Signs of Consciousness Demonstrated by Animals at AgriProcessors, Inc.
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Luke Ford has a post on the scientific issues surrounding the Postville Scandal. Science has conclusively established universally recognized signs of consciousness—including righting reflexes, head lifting, rhythmic breathing, blinking, and coordinated movement such as walking and standing. All of these...

December 4, 2004: Animals Do Feel Throat-Ripping
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Tzemach Atlas writes: A Doctor in our Shule told me that in principal [a] cow’s anatomy is similar to humans. Even when arteries are severed there could still be a blood supply to the brain after Schehita. There are additional...

December 4, 2004: Expert Comes Out Against Rubashkin
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Bernard E. Rollin (University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Animal Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, University Bioethicist at Colorado State University and author of The Well-Being of Farm Animals and An Introduction to Veterinary Medical Ethics) has issued...

December 2, 2004: The OU Asks For Changes In Postville
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The New York Times reports in tomorrow's edition: In the wake of accusations of cruelty from an animal rights group, the world's largest kosher certification authority announced yesterday that it would ask a major kosher slaughterhouse in Iowa to change...

December 2, 2004: The OU's Rabbi Belsky On The Postville Scandal
Comments: 10 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

I spoke with Rabbi Belsky from the OU about the Postville Shechita Scandal. Just as I did with Rabbi Kohn from KAJ, I'm posting brief points from the interview now as a public service: The 'second cut' is a "classical...

December 2, 2004: USDA Investigation Of Rubashkin Begins
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Federal farm officials have begun an investigation into allegations of animal cruelty at a kosher slaughterhouse. Steve Cohen, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says the agency sent an investigator to the Agricprocessors Incorporated plant in Postville, after it...

December 2, 2004: KAJ's Position On Postville
Comments: 6 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

I spoke with Rabbi Kohn of KAJ this evening to clarify KAJ's position on the Postville Scandal. Even though I'm writing a feature article about the scandal for print publication, I'm posting a few points from the interview now as...

December 2, 2004: The End Of Kashrut As We Know It?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

PETA just released the following statement: Rabbi Hanania Elbaz Rabbinic Administrator and President Sephardic Kashrus Lemehadrin Laboratory Brooklyn, NY 11223 Approved statement from Rabbi Elbaz, with addendum: I have expressed my shock that these organizations [the OU; Agriprocessors] have violated...

December 2, 2004: Rubashkin Doublespeak?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The AP has a piece on the Rubashkin Slaughterhouse Scandal. What's new? Maybe this: "This isn't an attack on Agriprocessors, but an attack on the kosher processing industry," said Mike Thomas, a company spokesman. "Federal law states how kosher slaughter...

December 2, 2004: EPA Sues Rubashkin
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

According to the DesMoines Register, the Environmental Protection Agency has sued a kosher meatpacker, claiming it repeatedly exceeded pollutant limits at its plant in Postville. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, alleges that Agriprocessors Inc. repeatedly violated the...

December 2, 2004: Agudath Israel Did Not See PETA Video – Voted Without Seeing Evidence
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

I have it from two well-placed sources that David Zwiebel and the attendees of the Agudath Israel convention held this past weekend did not see the PETA video. They voted to condemn PETA and support the OU, KAJ, etc., without...

December 2, 2004: OU Caught Red-Handed?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The NY Jewish Week has a story on the Rubashkin shechita scandal buried deep within its electronic edition. In it, Rabbi Menachem Genack, the head of the OU's Kashrut Division, is reported to have said the following: [PETA activist] Ronnen...

December 1, 2004: Rabbinute: Rubashkin Shechita Not Acceptible
Comments: 1 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Cow trying to walk after shechita at AgriProcessors/Rubashkin in Postville, Iowa (PETA) The rabbinate told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday that it would not consider as kosher cows that appear in an undercover video of ritual slaughtering at the AgriProcessors...

December 1, 2004: It's Time To Get New Leadership
Comments: 0 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Here's a choice quote via the JTA on the Rubashkin/PETA situation from one of our Jewish 'leaders,' the noted attorney Nathan Lewin, who is serving as Rubashkin's counsel in the PETA affair: “We’ll put them on the wall with Hitler,”...

December 1, 2004: The Expert Rubashkin Would Not Hire
Comments: 4 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

Mishpacha Magazine (a leading Haredi publication based in Israel) has a glowing article on Dr. Temple Grandin, the expert on humane kosher slaughter that Rubaskin would not hire. Indeed, Rubashkin's lawyer, the noted constitutional expert Nathan Lewin, did not even...

December 1, 2004: PETA vs. OU
Comments: 2 | Categories: Kosher Scandal

The New York Times has the scoop on the PETA/RUBASHKIN kosher slaughter exposé. The PETA video and other documentary evidence is linked after the jump. On the 30-minute tape, each animal is placed in a rotating drum so it can...

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