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Fast Forward Fire Damages Former Agriprocessors Plant in Iowa
Fire damaged the first floor of the former site of the Agriprocessors kosher meat processing plant in Iowa. The late Friday night fire at Agri Star Meat & Poultry in Postville started in a dryer that was left on in the plant’s laundry room, according to reports, and has been classified as accidental. No one…
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Food Life, Death, and Kosher Slaughter
Yadidya Greenberg is a certified shochet (kosher slaughterer), animal welfare educator and blogger. He has given live kosher slaughter and animal welfare presentations at The Portland Meat Collective, Urban Adamah of Berkley and the Hazon Rocky Mountain Food Festival just to name a few. Yadidya will also be featured in the upcoming documentary “Farm and…
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Food Israel Sets Example on Kosher Animal Cruelty
(JTA) — Diaspora Jews often find themselves exasperated with the Israeli rabbinate. But on one significant issue, an Israeli rabbinic authority is looking far more enlightened and merciful than his peers in the United States. Recently elected Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau surprised more than a few people last week when he reportedly threatened to…
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Opinion News Quiz: Kosher Starbucks, Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner, Elliot Spitzer and Bernie Goetz. They’re back, in this week’s quiz. The latest item to wow visitors to Kosherfest? It’s here, too, because, like those men, it’s as Jewish and strange as it Goetz. <a href=”http://theforward.polldaddy.com/s/jew-hear-about-2″>View Survey</a>
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News Kosher Chicken, E Coli and the Horace Mann Kid
It’s a new, if still debatable, mystery of modern science: Why would kosher chickens harbor much higher levels of potentially dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria than nonkosher chickens? The authors of a recent study that found this are just as stumped as anyone. “Nobody expected it would be any higher than conventional chicken,” said lead author Jack…
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Fast Forward Shocking Animal Abuse at Israeli Kosher Slaughterhouse
A severe pattern of animal abuse at the Soglowek Foods chicken slaughtering plant has been exposed in an Israeli TV report. The Channel 10 expose contained disturbing footage showing workers poking iron rods through cages packed with fowl to release doors that frequently get jammed, and how the chickens are knocked around and pile into…
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Fast Forward Quebec Plans To Tighten Rules for Kosher Slaughter
Quebec’s agricultural minister is looking to tighten regulations for kosher and halal meat production. “We want the slaughter to happen in the most complete conditions of hygiene and cleanliness,” Quebec Minister of Agriculture François Gendron said, in comments reported by Montreal radio station CJAD last week. The minister said he would announce a plan for…
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Food What’s ‘Kosher’ Worth? A Hell of a Lot
How much is a kosher website worth? Apparently, half a million dollars. Kosher.com sold earlier this week for that full sticker price. But wait: It wasn’t owned before? Well, it was, but brace yourself for the actual shocking part: There is no website present at kosher.com. Navigating to kosher.com takes a netizen to a blank,…
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