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This is how kosher meat is made. Secretly recorded inside akosher slaughterhouse.
On Feb 11, 6:41*am, "Gnostic" > wrote:
> This is how kosher meat is made. Secretly recorded inside a kosher > slaughterhouse. The video shows a worker cutting cows' throats while the > cows are still alive, in accordance with Jewish law, and the cows flailing > on the ground afterwards. > > In non-kosher plants, animals by law must be made unconscious before they > are killed. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzaeHfh65hs > > "Cows can be heard bellowing in agony and terror as the cut is made, as a > metal hook is inserted into the wound, as their tracheas and esophagi are > yanked from their bodies," said Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan > campaigns. > > Videotape of animals thrashing about after their throats were slit was shown > at a news conference Wednesday in New York. PETA said the videotape, taken > secretly in the summer, shows that the animals were conscious and suffering. > > Rabbi Chaim Kohn of the AgriProcessors plant told The New York Times that > the steers feel nothing even as they struggle on the floor of a restraining > pen. "Unconsciousness and the external behavior of the animal have nothing > to do with shechita," he said. > > Shechita is the Hebrew term for kosher slaughter. > > "We believe shechita . . . is a humane form of slaughter," said Orthodox > Union spokesman Steve Steiner. He added that USDA inspectors monitor the > plant's operation. > > PETA says footage showing the steers moving, in some cases up to three > minutes after their throats are slit, proves the animals are conscious and > are victims of cruel and inhumane treatment. > > -- > > "The modern Jew can't live without anti-Semitism. > If it's not there, he's driven to create it." > > Isaac Bashevis Singer, in "A Friend of Kafka and Other Stories" > > -- > + |
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