I received this in an email from my Meat Science professor, and found it interesting.
by Deborah Silver on 12/6/04 for Meatingplace.com
Based on a PETA videotape showing inhumane killing
procedures, the world's largest kosher certification
authority has asked AgriProcessors Inc. in Postville,
Iowa, to change its slaughter methods.
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president of
the Orthodox Union, which certifies more than 600,000
products worldwide as kosher, said the tape "raises all
sorts of questions."
Clandestinely recorded by a PETA investigator, the tape
apparently shows workers cutting the throats of steers,
tearing out their tracheae and esophagi and dumping the
animals on the floor where they thrashed until they
bled to death. Rabbi Weinreb said he found the
procedure "especially inhumane" and "general
unacceptable," although he plans to investigate how
regularly it happens.
After viewing the tape, a representative of Israel's
chief rabbinate said meat from AgriProcessors, the
world's largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse, would no
longer be accepted in Israel if the scenes on the tape
were standard practice. Glatt, under kosher law, means
the animals are free of certain physical defects.
by Deborah Silver on 12/6/04 for Meatingplace.com
Based on a PETA videotape showing inhumane killing
procedures, the world's largest kosher certification
authority has asked AgriProcessors Inc. in Postville,
Iowa, to change its slaughter methods.
Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president of
the Orthodox Union, which certifies more than 600,000
products worldwide as kosher, said the tape "raises all
sorts of questions."
Clandestinely recorded by a PETA investigator, the tape
apparently shows workers cutting the throats of steers,
tearing out their tracheae and esophagi and dumping the
animals on the floor where they thrashed until they
bled to death. Rabbi Weinreb said he found the
procedure "especially inhumane" and "general
unacceptable," although he plans to investigate how
regularly it happens.
After viewing the tape, a representative of Israel's
chief rabbinate said meat from AgriProcessors, the
world's largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse, would no
longer be accepted in Israel if the scenes on the tape
were standard practice. Glatt, under kosher law, means
the animals are free of certain physical defects.
