18 posts categorized "Rubashkin Gordon"
May 14, 2008: What Did The Rabbis Know And When Did They Know It?Comments: 18 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin EPA , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
In the wake of the largest immigration raid in the modern history of America, a question must be asked: What did the rabbis supervising Agriprocessors know and when did they know it?
February 29, 2008: Congressional Letter to USDA Regarding Rubashkin, AgriProcessors
Comments: 146 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety
February 29, 2008: Mad Cow, E. Coli, Sanitation Violations Alleged At Rubashkin Plant – Sewage on Kill Floor, Insect Infestation, Found
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety
The UFCW Union press release and the AP report are posted after the jump in the extended post below. I'll have more details on this soon.
January 31, 2008: EXCLUSIVE:
USDA Allows Rubashkin Meat Hook Use to "Facilitate Bleeding"
Meat hook to probe or slash open throat wounds of fully conscious cattle "protected" by "religious" exemption to Humane Slaughter Act
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
Documents (posted below) obtained by FailedMessiah.com under the Freedom of Information Act show that the USDA now permits probing or excision of an open ritual slaughter wound using a meat hook, even though the cattle this procedure is perfomed on...
November 26, 2007: Rubashkin Coverage
Comments: 5 | Categories: Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
Kol Ra'ash Gadol has a nice overview of the recent Rubashkin / UFCW Union flap over on Jewschool. I'll have more Rubashkin coverage later this week.
November 21, 2007: Rubashkin, the Union, and Truth
Comments: 7 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin EPA , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Safety , Rubashkin Workers
The Forward has a good rundown of the recent confrontation between Agriprocessors and the UFCW union. I haven't seen the union's newspaper ads of flyers yet, and I did not receive an automated telephone call, so I'm relying on what...
July 30, 2007: Rubashkin Rabbi Misleads
Comments: 19 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Business? , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon , Rubashkin Workers
Rabbi Asher Zeilingold writes in the American Jewish World, July 27, 2007 (not online): I appreciate this opportunity to elaborate my thoughts on the Conservative movement's new Hechsher Tzedek (AJW 7-20-07). I am deeply concerned that the Hechsher Tzedek (justice...
July 25, 2007: Understanding The So-Called "Second Cut"
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , History , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
At the heart of both of the Rubashkin slaughter scandals is the so-called "second cut," a cut made after the ritual slaughter cut to speed bleeding. This was – until Rubashkin – a rarely used procedure. When it was done,...
July 25, 2007: BREAKING: USDA CLEARS RUBASHKIN; HOOK DISCONTINUED – AGAIN
Comments: 24 | Categories: Chabad , Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
I asked USDA FSIS chief spokesman Steven Cohen the following questions last night: Again, is the use of a meat hook by a non-rabbinic employee to make an "additional cut" within USDA regulations? Is it legal? Is thrashing and probing...
July 24, 2007: Special Prosecutor To Investigate Alleged Animal Abuse At Rubashkin's Gordon Plant
Comments: 1 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
The AP reports: A special prosecutor has been appointed to look into allegations of animal mistreatment at a Gordon meatpacking plant. In a complaint filed July 9 with the Sheridan County attorney, the animal rights group People for the Ethical...
July 24, 2007: Why The "Second Cut" Is Illegal
Comments: 1 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Business? , Rubashkin Gordon
At the end of 2004, the USDA issued a H.I.K.E. scenario to teach line inspectors what to do when they witness ritual slaughter and see violations. In part, it says: …This second cut was performed by a person other than...
July 24, 2007: The OU Lies Again: Meat Hook Throat Probing Not USDA Mandated – Meat Hook To Throat "Part Of Glatt Kosher Slaughter"
Comments: 16 | Categories: Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
I spoke yesterday with Trent Berhow, the vice president of the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, and with Jim Shanahan, head of the local in Grand Island, Nebraska. Shanahan told he he watched the latest PETA video with...
July 18, 2007: OU Lies, Meat Hook Was Used
Comments: 130 | Categories: Creative PR , Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
Screen shots from the new PETA video of slaughter in Rubashkin's Agriprocessors Local Pride plant in Gordon, Nebraska. The top picture is later in the sequence, the bottom a few frames earlier, showing a clean meat hook just before insertion...
July 18, 2007: The OU Speaks About Rubashkin, Meat Hooks and Animal Abuse
Comments: 24 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
So what is really happening on this new PETA video taken at Rubashkin's Gordon, Nebraska plant? I've spent the last few days doing some legwork, including a long interview with the OU's Rabbi Menachem Genack, the OU's head of shechita...
July 16, 2007: Kosher Today: PETA Doctored Photo. Truth: Stock Photo Used By Yeshiva World News Not From PETA's Rubashkin Website, Stolen From Temple Grandin
Comments: 12 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Haredim , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
Kosher Today in its new issue sent today (and not yet online) accuses PETA of doctoring evidence: KosherToday in an exclusive report has learned that the PETA Web site doctored a photo of a box used in the kosher slaughter...
July 16, 2007: Native Americans On Warpath Over PETA Shechita Revelations
Comments: 2 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
Kosher Today, the Kosher food industry's trade publication, today reports on the latest Rubashkin scandal. (This is not online yet; what follows is the email version.) As usual for Kosher Today, which is run by Menachem Lubinsky, a paid consultant...
July 11, 2007: OU: Alleged Animal Abuse At Rubashkin's Nebraska Plant "Nothing Like" The Abuses At Postville, Iowa
Comments: 8 | Categories: Haredim , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal , Rubashkin Gordon
The OU's head of kashrut Rabbi Menachem Genack told the Forward that he had not yet "had the chance" to see the new PETA video but that the OU has sent an "inspector" to the Nebraska plant to check it...
July 9, 2007: BREAKING! Rubashkin Caught Using Meat Hook On Live Cows, Cutting Off Parts Of Ears While Cows Still Living – All Violations Of The Humane Slaughter Act
Comments: 66 | Categories: Kosher Scandal , Rubashkin Gordon
Watch more videos at PETA.org Agriprocessors Gordon, Nebraska plant has been caught by PETA doing much the same things the Postville plant did – using a meat hook to partially rip out the throats of still-living animals. In this case,...
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