Jewish taxation without Gentile representation aka Jewish Tax_What I Found in My Pantry
Doc Tavish
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FOREWORD: Many references are made to what transpires in Canada but everyone may
rest assured these practices are also taking place globally in any country which
has a demonstrated Jewish influence on its government. Americans, British,
French, Germans etc. are all paying hidden costs to pay tributes to rabbis for
their approval of items being termed as being kosher. Imagine the outrage if the
Catholic Church were to devise a similar scheme of having priests bless certain
products and the companies whose products were being blessed had to pay tributes
to the Catholic Church and the cost of the tributes were passed on to the
consumers who were non-Catholic! Jews are now even giving steel Kosher approval
and getting paid for such "services." Read about Jewish steel tax here:
http://www.ukar.org/tax04.html <-- Just another scheme in which Jews are making
a "steeling."
Also see: http://www.ukar.org/tax03.html
Jewish Tax: Separation of Church and State
'"[Excerpt] ... State Kosher Laws Struck Down By New Jersey Supreme Court
Jewish groups are dismayed at the recent New Jersey Supreme Court ruling
that government regulations of the kosher food industry violates the
constitutional separation of church and state. The decision directly affects
only New Jersey, but is expected to have wide ramifications in the 16 other
states in which the government monitors the preparation and sale of kosher food.
Similar suits are likely to be brought in many of those other states.
In a 4-3 decision, the New Jersey court found that while the state is
compelled to prevent fraud, the regulations "plainly violate" both state and
federal constitutional prohibitions against the establishment of religion.
Justice Alan Handler, writing for the majority, said that the current
regulations require government involvement in areas that should not be under its
purview.
The regulations allow the state to determine whether food is prepared
"in strict compliance with what the state itself believes to be the laws and
customs of the Orthodox Jewish religion." In that respect, continued Handler,
"the regulations do not police the nutritional quality or sanitary purity of
kosher food, but only its religious purity. In doing so, they create an
unconstitutional entanglement of government and religion."' <end of excerpt>
Isn't is usually Jews who cry "separation of church and state" YET they want the
government to enforce their religious laws and want non-Jews to subsidize
such!!!
Now to the post!
http://www.ukar.org/tax02.html
(Link active July 25, 2005. Archived locally as: Jewish Tax_What I Found in My
Pantry)
"What we have stumbled upon here is a Jewish tax on food which appears to have
spread throughout the kitchen to non-food items so as to become a Jewish tax on
food plus kitchen products, and from there made its way to the laundry room so
as to become a Jewish tax on food plus kitchen products plus laundry products,
and from there metastasized to the medicine cabinet so as to become a Jewish tax
on food plus kitchen products plus laundry products plus over-the-counter
medications." — Lubomyr Prytulak
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What I Found in My Pantry
One hundred fifty six discoveries
I made by reading product labels
Had someone asked me a few days before 14-Dec-1999 how many products I had in my
house that bore a kosher label, I would have said none. At around that time,
however, I learned something about kosher labeling, and actually made a count,
and was astounded to discover that my count reached 90. Yes, to my amazement,
my initial screening revealed that I had in my possession 90 different products
that bore a kosher label.
In the days following, I located more kosher-labelled products lying hidden
throughout my house, or sometimes just the container that had been conscripted
for other use. Wittingly or unwittingly, I purchased many more as well. Two
were purchased by family members in Ontario. In three cases, the item was not
purchased: (1) a free sample of Tide laundry detergent was left on my doorstep,
(2) a package of almonds was handed to a family member on an airplane, and (3) a
potato chip bag was thrown, or blew, onto my lawn. Well, OK, it had blown
across my lawn and was actually just over the line on my neighbor's property
stuck in his hedge when I found it — but it had a label that I had never seen
before (turned out to be Winnipeg Kosher) and I had to have it for my
collection. Anyway, with such additions, all but three being purchases for
family use, the total was brought up to 156 on 21-Apr-2000:
Date Count
12-Apr-2000 152
20-Apr-2000 155
21-Apr-2000 156
That is 156 different products, mostly purchased, and as any product could have
been purchased many times, with some being purchased a great many times, then
the total number of purchases of kosher-labelled products was much higher than
156, conceivably in excess of one thousand, but I cannot say with any accuracy
as I did not keep track. And although the discovery of previously-undocumented
kosher-certified products clearly levels off over time, purchase of
kosher-certified products both previously documented and previously undocumented
continues high.
In retrospect, I can see that a more thorough study of the nature of my kosher
purchasing would have recorded the date of purchase of every kosher product,
whether the brand was one that had been purchased previously or not, and would
have recorded the price of each purchase as well. Some interesting graphs could
have been drawn.
And it is possible also that a more dedicated monitoring on my part would have
yielded a higher total of different products purchased — the dedication
manifesting itself in more dependably checking packaging for a kosher label
before throwing it out, and in more tenaciously hunting down the meaning of
presently-unrecognized symbols, as for example the "10" enclosed inside a circle
which appears on a can of Campbell's tomato soup — I emailed Campbell Soups six
times, and sent a hard-copy letter once, enquiring whether this signified kosher
certification, but have not yet had my question answered, and so for the time
being I do not count Campbell's tomato soup as being kosher-certified.
As the smallest change in ingredients or in the manner of processing requires an
independent rabbinical review and an independent certification of kosher, any
variation by a producer is considered to constitute a different product — to
consider just three examples, Astro Strawberry Yogurt is considered to be a
different product from Astro Raspberry Yogurt, and different even from Astro
Strawberries and Cream Yogurt; or Bertolli Extra Light Olive Oil is considered
to be a different product from Bertolli Extra Virgin Olive Oil; or Kraft
Unsweetened and Unsalted Peanut Butter is different from Kraft Light and Smooth
Peanut Butter, which is different from Kraft Smooth Peanut Butter, which is
different from Kraft Crunchy Peanut Butter.
The case of Häagen-Dazs Vanilla Ice Cream proved unique in that it appeared to
receive certification from two different kosher-accreditation agencies, the
Council of Orthodox Rabbis (COR, Toronto) and the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations (OU, New York). Although the label for this product is shown
under both categories below, it is counted only once, in the COR category.
Thus, with my participating in the purchase and consumption of the 156
kosher-certified products (in let us say approximately one thousand purchases)
documented below in about four months, there can be little doubt that I am a
solid member of the club of 8.5 million kosher consumers alluded to below — but
if most of these kosher consumers are, like me, either unwitting or unwilling,
what does this tell us about the legitimacy of the kosher-certification
business, and what does it forebode for its longevity?
For 1998 the Kosher market was estimated to be 8.5 million Kosher consumers who
spent $3.5 billion annually on Kosher food. In general, $45 billion was spent
on kosher products in the year of 1998. Sales of Kosher food have been
increasing at a yearly rate of 13-15 percent since 1992.
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From the Orthodox Union (OU) webs site at:
http://www.ou.org/kosher/kosherqa/food.htm
But why such modesty from the kosher business? In view of the pervasiveness of
kosher-certified products, almost every Canadian and American must consume them,
such that the number of "kosher consumers" in Canada and the United States in
reality cannot be a mere 8.5 million, but could readily exceed 200 million.
Another way of viewing the phenomenon, of course, is that the number of
consumers paying the Jewish kosher tax in Canada and the United States, almost
all of them unwittingly, exceeds 200 million.
In any case, the main kosher symbols that I found in my possession and whose
origins I was able to ascertain, rank ordered from most to least frequent, were
the following:
<<Tavish comment July 25, 2005: You will need to download the web page
http://www.ukar.org/tax02.html to see all of the graphics such as kosher
symbols and product pictures.>>
SYMBOL KOSHER-CERTIFICATION AGENCY
Council of Orthodox Rabbis
Kashruth Council of Toronto
4600 Bathurst Street, Suite 240
North York, Ontario
Canada M2R 3V2
Rabbi Mordechai Levin, Executive Director
Phone: (416) 635-9550
Fax: (416) 635-8760
Website: http://www.feduja.org/rellife/kashintr.stm
Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations
333 Seventh Avenue
New York, New York
USA 10001
Phone: (212) 563-4000
Fax: (212) 564-9058
Rabbi Menachem Genack, Rabbinic Administrator
Website: http://www.ou.org/
Montreal Kosher
Montreal Vaad Hair
6333 Decarie Boulevard, Suite 100
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3W 3E1
Phone: (514) 270-2659
Fax: (514) 739-7024
Rabbi Peretz Jaffe, Rabbinic Administrator
Rabbi Saul Emanuel, Executive Director
Website: http://www.mkmontreal.org/
New Jersey Kosher
Kof-K Kosher Supervision
1444 Queen Anne Road
Teaneck, NJ
USA 07666
Phone: (201) 837-0500
Fax: (201) 837-0126
Rabbi Aharon Felder, Director of Kosher Standards
Rabbi Ari Moshe Senter, Halachic Research
Rabbi Dovid Senter, Rabbi Yehuda Rosenbaum,
Rabbi Daniel Senter, Administration
Rabbi Dr. H. Zecharia Senter, Executive Administrator
Publication: Kosher Outlook Supplement
Website: http://www.kof-k.com/
British Columbia Kosher
Orthodox Rabbinical Council of British Columbia
8080 Fancis Road
Richmond, British Columbia
Canada V6Y 1A4
Rabbi Levy Teitlebaum
Phone: (604) 275-0042
Fax: (604) 277-2225
Star-K Kosher
Star-K Kosher Certification
11 Warren Road Baltimore, MD
USA 21208-5234
Phone: (410) 484-4110
Fax: (410) 653-9294
Rabbi Moshe Heinemann, Rabbinic Administrator
Website: http://www.star-k.org/index.html
Committee For The Furtherance of Torah Observance
The Organized Kashrus Laboratories
391 Troy Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
USA 11213
Phone: (718) 756-7500
Fax: (718) 756-7503
Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, Kashrus Administrator
Website: http://www.ok.org/
Beverly Hills Kosher
Kosher Overseers Associates of America
A Division of the Orthodox Rabbinical Association, Inc.
P.O. Box 1321
Beverly Hills, CA
USA 90213
Phone: (213) 870-0011
Fax: (213) 567-4371
Rabbi Dr. I. Harlod Sharfman, Rabbinic Administrator
Rabbi Chaim Hisiger, Kashrus Coordinator
Rabbi Shalom Meir Ohana, Supervisions Administrator
Publication: Global Guide to Kosher Foods & Restaurants
Website: http://kosher.org/
Michigan Kosher
Metropolitan Kashrut Council of Michigan
Los Angeles Kosher
Kosher Supervision of America
P.O. Box 35721
Los Angeles, CA
USA 90035
Phone: (310) 282-0444
Fax: (310) 282-0505
Rabbi Binyomin Lisbon, Kashrus Administrator
Publication: KSA Supervised Establishments
Massachusetts Kosher
Vaad Hakashrus of Massachusetts
177 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
USA 02111
Rabbi Abraham Halfinger, Rabbinic Administrator
Phone: (617) 426-2139
Fax: (617) 426-6268
Rabbi Ralbag Kosher
Rabbi Joseph H. Ralbag
225 West 86th Street
New York, NY
USA 10024
Phone: (212) 877-1823
Fax: (212) 595-7966
Winnipeg Kosher
Rabbi Peretz Weizman
VAAD HA'IR of Winnipeg, Inc.
#C306-123 Doncaster Street
Winnipeg, MB Canada R3N 2B2
Phone: (204) 487-9571
Fax: (204) 477-7405
Details concerning kosher labeling
PAREVE or PARVE (from the Yiddish, parev) accompanying a kosher symbol
signifies that the product is made without milk, meat, or derivatives of milk or
meat, and therefore safe to eat under all circumstances for the kosher-keeping
Jew.
P stands for Passover, and indicates that the product is considered kosher
throughout the year, particularly during Passover at which time more restrictive
standards must be met.
DAIRY or D or the French LAIT accompanying a kosher symbol indicates that
the product contains a milk derivative, so that although it may safely be eaten
alone, it may not be eaten together with meat, which combination happens to be
prohibited by Jewish law.
NOT CHOLOV YISROEL or NON CHOLEV YISROEL or the French PAS CHOLOV YISROEL
accompanying a kosher symbol signifies that although the milk product in
question is considered to be kosher, in fact there was no Jewish supervision of
the milk-production process. Had the milk been produced on the farm of an
observant Jew, or had the milk been produced on a non-Jewish farm but under
Jewish supervision, then the milk would be considered to be Cholov Yisroel.
Thus, for a milk product to be labeled kosher and yet not cholov yisroel
constitutes a partial or qualified certification of kosher, which the producer
could turn into a complete and unqualified certification upon the hiring of
Jewish supervisors.
It follows that if a product is labeled Cholov Yisroel or Not Cholov Israel, it
must contain milk, even if the words Dairy or Lait or the letter D are missing.
In the box below is reproduced an excerpt from a longer discussion of Cholov
Yisroel that can be found on the Star-K web site which can be accessed by
clicking the Star-K [link] below:
http://www.star-k.org/articles/cholovyisroel.html
Cholov Yisroel: Does a Neshama Good
Rabbi Moshe Heinemann, Rabbinic Administrator
[...]
It was common practice among farmers to mix milk of various species together,
unbeknownst to their customers. Since it was conceivable to have a farm mixture
of Kosher and non-Kosher milk, our Rabbis issued an injunction several thousand
years ago, against the use of Cholov Akum, milk from a non-Jewish farmer. This
restriction did not apply if there was supervision of the farmer by a Yehudi
during the milking. The Rabbis ruled that unsupervised milk may not be used,
even though most of the milk available in the area came from Kosher species and
the likelihood of tampering was slim.
Our Rabbis stipulated that in order to ensure that the milk of an Akum is
Kosher, a Yehudi must be present from the milking until the bottling. The
Yehudi must be able to identify that the milk production has not been
compromised, or that the milk has not been adulterated. The supervisor must be
a G-d fearing Jew in his personal activities so that his credibility regarding
Kashrus issues is beyond reproach. Milk produced under the auspices of this
Mashgiach is called Cholov Yisroel.
[...]
However, other writers leave the impression that government supervision alone is
sufficient to qualify milk as Cholov Yisroel. The more complete discussion from
which the excerpt below is taken can be accessed by clicking on the logo. "OU,"
by the way, stands for "Union of Organized Jewish Congregations."
[...]
DAIRY PRODUCTS
http://www.ou.org/kosher/primer.html
A. Cholov Yisroel:
A Rabbinic law requires that there be supervision during the milking process to
ensure that the source of the milk is from a kosher animal. Following the
opinion of many rabbinic authorities, OU policy considers that in the United
States, the Department of Agriculture's regulations and controls are
sufficiently stringent to ensure that only cow's milk is sold commercially.
These Government requirements fulfill the Rabbinical requirement for
supervision.
[...]
BISHUL YISROEL accompanying a kosher label signifies that Jews participated
in the production of a food item, and so of course NON BISHUL YISROEL signifies
that there is no guarantee that Jews so participated. Non Bishul Yisroel,
therefore, is the second instance that we have seen of a partial or qualified
certification of kosher, with the hiring of Jewish employees being required to
make the kosher certification complete and unqualified.
It is a curiosity (which happens not be manifested in the collection of kosher
labels below) that a food product can be Bishul Yisroel (produced with the
participation of Jews) and yet not be kosher.
We can imagine that the analogous certification in the hands of other groups
might lead to supermarket attestations such as "Genuine Italians participated in
the making of this pizza" or "Pure Germans were employed in the production of
this strudel" or "Certified Chinese contributed toward the creation of this chop
suey" or "Some real Ukrainians helped make these perogies." Reading the excerpt
below, furthermore, calls to mind that if other groups followed the Jewish lead,
then we might see Germans prohibited from eating any food produced by
non-Germans, and the same for Italians, Chinese, and Ukrainians:
http://www.ou.org/torah/tt/5759/kiteizei59/specialfeatures.htm
[...]
No Jew — S'faradi or Ashkenazi is allowed to eat a food product that is produced
by BISHUL ACU"M (food cooked exclusively by a non-Jew). The OU does not certify
any product that has a BISHUL ACU"M problem. Exactly what foods fall under the
ban of BISHUL ACU"M and what constitutes BISHUL YISRAEL when required are
complex issues. Food that can be eaten raw, may be cooked by a non-Jew and is
not subject to the ban on BISHUL ACU"M. Nor is a product that requires further
cooking. Nor is a food that does not "go onto the table of kings." These
exemptions from the ban on BISHUL ACU"M are the same for S'faradim and
Ashkenazim. (There is some things a dispute among poskim as to what does and
does not go onto the table of kings, but that's another story.)
Where Ashkenazim and S'faradim differ in this issue is concerning what a Jew has
to do in order for the food to be BISHUL YISRAEL. Ashkenazim follow the RAMA
who says that if a Jew does ANYTHING in the processing — lights the fire or
turns on the machinery, for example — then the product is considered BISHUL
YISRAEL and is permitted. S'faradim follow the M'CHABER (Rav Yosef Caro) who
requires a Jew to actually put the food on the fire (or into the machines) in
order for there not to be a BISHUL ACU"M.
[...]
Longer lists of kosher-accreditation agency logos
The kosher-accreditation agency logos in the table higher above are not an
attempt to be exhaustive; they are only symbols on products consumed by my
family. More extensive collections of kosher-accreditation agency logos can be
found at several web locations, among them:
Kosher Mall
http://www.koshermall.com/region.htm
World Wide Kashruth Authorities Listing
http://www.kosher.co.il/orgs/index.htm
Kosherfest-On-Line
http://www.kosherquest.org/html/Reliable_Kosher_Symbols.htm
American-Asian Kashrus Services
http://www.kashrus.org/kosher/symbol.html
How many such kosher-accreditation agencies might exist in the whole world? —
Obviously, hundreds. The National Council of Young Israel web site estimates
over 200 for the USA alone: "Furthermore, it has become very difficult for both
Rabbis and laymen to track and judge the reliability of the over 200 Kashruth
symbols appearing on many products distributed nationally."
http://www.village.co.il/young/star.htm
Don't mistake the following for kosher symbols
It must be cautioned that common symbols on packaging that are unrelated to
kosher labeling are © for Copyright, and ® for Registered Trade Mark. TM is
also sometimes used for Trade Mark. In French, Trade Mark is most often
expressed as MD, Marque Déposée, and occasionally as MC, Marque de Commerce. In
one case, in the midst of French text, I came across a D inside a circle so as
to lead me to believe that this had been introduced as a symbol for Marque
Déposée corresponding to the English ®.
Examples of other symbols that do not indicate kosher certification are shown
below. On the left below is a symbol which I found prominently displayed on a
Lipton Chicken OXO box — it turned out to be issued by the Government of Canada
and means that the product contains at least 3% meat or poultry, and that this
meat or poultry comes from government-inspected producers. The 52 is an
identification number issued by the Government of Canada to the Lipton Company.
In the middle below is a 4015 enclosed in a rectangle with its corners cut off —
this was found on a Dairyworld Foods, Fraser Valley, Unsalted Creamery Butter
along with two other numbers similarly displayed, the three together designating
"manufacturing plant numbers." As a final example of the sort of symbols that
are likely to be encountered on home-product packaging, and that are not kosher
symbols, is the P2919 on the right below, found on a Dairyworld Foods, Dairyland
2% milk carton, and which is a "panel number that the carton manufacturer places
there for reference."
Although the trade mark symbols invariably appear in close proximity to the
brand name of the product, or sometimes tied to the brand name by means of an
asterisk, other non-kosher symbols can appear anywhere on the product packaging.
Kosher symbols too are not closely tied to the brand name, sometimes appearing
near the brand name, but at other times being placed in less conspicuous spots,
perhaps on the back of the package, or in the case of Heinz ketchup and Heinz
chili sauce, the "COR 10" kosher symbol appears not on the main label at all,
but only on the neck of the bottle. In the case of the Lactaid Lactase Enzyme,
the COR 214 appeared on the box and on the loose explanatory sheet inside the
box, but not on the plastic bottle which actually contained the tablets, such
that if one threw away both box and explanatory sheet, as might be done with a
familiar product, then a later examination of the bottle alone would give no
indication that it had been kosher-certified.
Surprising variety of kosher products
Of particular interest among the edible items below are those that one would not
normally think of as being susceptible to kosher labeling, such as chocolate
chips, tea, coffee, cacao, flour, oats, raisins, horse radish, frozen orange
juice, cinnamon sticks, corn starch, olive oil, molasses, mustard, caraway
seeds, vinegar, sugar, salt, lactase enzyme, and a calcium+vitamins supplement.
And of still greater interest is kosher labels bestowed on products that are not
even edible, such as plastic baggies, food-wrap film, dishwasher detergent,
scouring pads, and aluminum foil. Of the very greatest interest is kosher
labels appearing on products which are not applied to food and not used in the
kitchen or the dining room, such as laundry detergent and laundry bleach. The
possibility that manufacturers have been duped into purchasing kosher labeling
for products that do not require it is broached in my letter of 13Apr2000 to
Moshe Ronen, National President of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
http://www.ukar.org/ronen09.html
All this costs — but how much?
In my education in kosher labeling, I next discovered that these many kosher
labels do not come free. They do not even come cheap. They come expensive. As
one piece of evidence to this effect — more evidence will be added as resources
permit — please read about the Jewish steel tax as described in Newsweek
magazine. http://www.ukar.org/tax04.html
-> Jewish taxation without Gentile representation
A hypothesis that readily springs to mind from the above revelations is that
what we have stumbled upon here is a Jewish tax on food which appears to have
spread throughout the kitchen to non-food items so as to become a Jewish tax on
food plus kitchen products, and from there made its way to the laundry room so
as to become a Jewish tax on food plus kitchen products plus laundry products,
and from there metastasized to the medicine cabinet so as to become a Jewish tax
on food plus kitchen products plus laundry products plus over-the-counter
medications. And the question that the above revelations urgently presses upon
consciousness is how much this Jewish tax — if it may be so described — costs
the average Canadian household each year. Ten dollars? A hundred dollars? A
thousand dollars? What? Why don't we know? Why is there no way to find out?
Why isn't this a matter of public record?
Paying for the bullet with which you are executed
Why is this topic being broached on the Ukrainian Archive? Simply because it
has been documented on the Ukrainian Archive that inciting fear and hatred of
Ukrainians is an integral part of Jewish culture. The question becomes germane
then of whether this incitement is financed, at least in part, by a hidden
Jewish tax upon all Canadians, and thus whether Ukrainian-Canadians are in
effect subsidizing Jews to engineer such anti-Ukrainian pageants as the misnamed
Deschênes Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals, or such anti-Ukrainian
spectacles as the current spate of half-century-old immigration-infraction
prosecutions being conducted by Canada's so-called war crimes unit.
http://www.ukar.org/littma05.html AND http://www.ukar.org/warcrime.html
A word on format
Below, the image containing the brand name has been scaled so as to be about 175
pixels high. To its right, typically scaled to 75 pixels high, appears the
kosher symbol usually found somewhere in the vicinity of the brand name. In
cases where the kosher symbol did not appear near the brand name, I show the
kosher symbol along with a chunk of the environment in which it was discovered.
In cases where the kosher symbol within the 175-pixel-high image is at least 75
pixels high, it is not reproduced separately in a 75-pixel-high image.
A viewer inspecting the images below using a screen resolution lower than
1034x768 will find that the row order of images is not maintained, with images
being moved to the next line which were intended to stay on the same line —
which makes for slightly messier viewing, but is otherwise not critical.
<<Tavish comment July 25, 2005: You will need to download the web page
http://www.ukar.org/tax02.html to see all of the content the above makes
reference to. If the web page gets pulled I will be able to post the web page as
an offline viewable document to an alt.binaries news group.>>
Further reading in the same vein: http://www.ukar.org/tax.html
(Link active July 25, 2005. Archived locally as: Jewish Tax Directory)
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of
opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical." — Thomas
Jefferson: Bill for Religious Freedom, 1779. Papers 2:545
http://www.ukar.org/z/indianc.jpg
(Archived locally as: indianc.jpg)
Picture of Native American man eating a sandwich with the following text:
"The promotional display above confuses enjoying Jewish food with enjoying
kosher food. In fact, kosher food does not taste any different from the same
food prepared without kosher observance. Thus, while the native American
pictured may indeed be enjoying his, say, corned beef sandwich, it is
implausible that he is enjoying it because it is kosher.
In any case, the subject of this section of the Ukrainian Archive does not
address the tastiness of foods prepared by Jews or often eaten by Jews. That
such foods can be enjoyed by non-Jews is obvious and irrelevant. Rather, this
section of the Ukrainian Archive addresses itself to the quite different
question of a Jewish tax levied upon non-Jews. Were the native American shown
above to learn that the majority of the purchases that he made at his
supermarket involved a payment to kosher-accreditation agencies, he might stop
smiling."
Also related:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/f5ce35db89852187
Subject: Leading rabbi says key hummus ingredient not kosher when prepared by
non-Jews (More Jewish Bigotry Toward the Rest of Humanity!)
Message-ID: <hvr6d1d3f99t8rjht...@4ax.com>
Date: 12 Jul 2005 07:38:38 GMT
The above archive has many extracts from Jewish web sites proving their bigotry
and disgust against the rest of humanity.
What Jews do to provide "Kosher" beef:
KEY PHRASE TO LOOK FOR: "The Mason bill added further consternation by requiring
the meat packer to label meats either "Kosher" or "humane," creating an obvious
division between the Kosher and non-Kosher slaughtered animals which was
uncomplimentary to Jews." Hence "Kosher" slaughtering is NOT humane in any sense
of the word!!
http://www.ukar.org/ronen02.html
(Link active July 25, 2005. Archived locally as: ronen02)
Excerpt
Moshe Ronen Letter 02 22-Mar-2000 Is Jewish ritual slaughter inhumane?
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"We are united against the slaughter of conscious animals, consider it a horror
in itself, and an abomination when coupled with the vicious devices used to
restrain conscious livestock. We have nothing to gain, neither on earth nor in
heaven, by slaughtering God's creatures while they are conscious." — Rabbi Dr.
Eugen Kullman
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A video showing cattle undergoing Jewish ritual slaughter in Postville Iowa
during the Summer of 2004 can be viewed as well as downloaded at
www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=agri_short
Download link: http://www.petatv.com/downloads/agri_short.zip
(Link active July 25, 2005. Archived locally as: "Jewish Tax_Jewish Ritual
Slaughter agri_short.zip" This video is a must see! It will show how cruel Jews
are in their traditions. The Law of Moses did NOT command such cruel and
barbaric slaughter techniques the modern day Pharisees prescribe!!! Tavish)
A very much longer version of the same video, but without explanatory text, is
available at www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=agri_long
Download link: http://www.petatv.com/downloads/agri_long.zip
(Archived locally as: "Jewish Tax_Jewish Ritual Slaughter agri_long.zip)
Relevant to the PETA video are the documents at
www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/letter-Shafer-Complaint.asp
www.rrrina.com/kosher.htm
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1101874929440
www.aquarianonline.com/Values/Postville_Mohr.htm
www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors
www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/investigator.asp
www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/pdfs/Rubashkinpdf.pdf
archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/animalnet/2004/12-2004/animalnet_dec_31.htm
www.ou.org/other/5765/shechita6-65.htm
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March 22, 2000
Moshe Ronen
National President
Canadian Jewish Congress
100 Sparks Street Suite 650
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5B7
Telephone: (613) 233-8703
Fax: (613) 233-8748
Moshe Ronen:
In advancing our discussion of kosher accreditation, I bring to your attention
an advertisement placed in the New York Times of 17Mar67, p. 29, titled "THIS IS
SLAUGHTER OF CONSCIOUS ANIMALS."
Who placed this advertisement?
The New York Times advertisement, "THIS IS SLAUGHTER OF CONSCIOUS ANIMALS," is
credited to the
COMMITTEE FOR HUMANE LEGISLATION, INC.
17 West 60 St.,
New York, N.Y. 10023
Listed underneath this committee's banner are the following members:
H.R.H. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Alice Herrington
Executive Director, and
President, Friends of Animals, Inc.
Dr. John Boland
Chief of Radiotherapy
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Dr. Irving Graef
Consultant Physician
Lenox Hill Hospital
Dr. David Gurevitch
Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and
Medical Director of Blythdale Children's Hospital,
Valhalla, N.Y.
Dr. Maria Morgenstern
Psychiatrist
Dr. Juan Negrin
Attending Neuro-Surgeon
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York Metropolitan Medical Center
Dr. Saul K. Padover
Chairman, Department of Political Science
Graduate School
New School for Social Research
Dr. Henry Schwab
Senior Assistant Physician
Metabolic Division
St. Clare's Hospital
Instructor in Medicine
New York Medical College
A box of text within this advertisement, which will be reproduced farther below,
is signed by:
Rabbi Dr. Eugen Kullman
Department of Religion and Philosophy
New School for Social Research
Vice-President, Friends of Animals, Inc.
Other names that are listed without specification of affiliation appear in what
is labeled as a "partial listing":
Elmer and Ruth Berger, Irene Balletta, Gordon and Isabel Brooks, Shepard
Coleman, John Cram, Rosita Diaz, Constance Fisher, Regina Frankenberg, Alan
Goldberg, Rabbi David Goldberg, John T. Gorman, Dr. and Mrs. L. Gottesman,
Gretchen Graef, Fannie Hurst, Mrs. W. E. Josten, Helen Lehman, Alexander and
Ellsabeth Lewy, Jacques and Vera Lindon, James A. MacIntosh, Marjorie Mitchell,
Juliet Pitt, Theodor Primack, Gene and Helen Rayburn, Wells Richardson, Remi
Saunder, Frank Shoenborn, Dorothy Stein, Carole Tauber, Lawrence and Trudy
Wilkinson, Gretchen Wyler, and John Zanetti.
What does the advertisement advocate?
(1) The advertisement advocates the signing of a petition
The advertisement asks the reader to sign a petition advocating the humane
slaughter of animals and advocating the passage of the Hudson-Adams-Lis-Emery
bill:
GOVERNOR ROCKEFELLER, State Capitol, Albany, New York
I insist that all the animals be humanely rendered unconscious and insensible to
pain before being shackled, hoisted, cast, thrown, or cut. I request that you
apply the full power of your high office to ensure that A5425-S2333 is passed
into law. I want the meat I buy to come from this modern slaughter.
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signature
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address
(2) The advertisement advocates support for the Hudson-Adams-Lis-Emery bill
The Hudson-Adams-Lis-Emery bill sounds innocuous enough, merely advocating that
kosher-slaughtered meat be labeled as kosher, and non-kosher be labeled as
non-kosher. One would imagine all might find such a bill harmless and
inoffensive, which however proves to be very far from the case, as we shall
learn below. The bill reads as follows:
Sale of meat. To ensure the right of each citizen to purchase meat slaughtered
in accordance with his belief, all meat sold for human consumption, designated
as kosher, shall be the product of a ritual method of slaughtering, and all meat
sold for human consumption, not designated as kosher, shall be the product of
modern slaughter. Each slaughterer, packer and stockyard operator shall certify
to the commissioner that his method of slaughter conforms with the provisions of
this act and shall sell his product for human consumption, in whole or in part,
only in accordance with this act.
What occasioned the placing of such an advertisement?
There appear to be two reasons why this advertisement was placed:
(1) The advertisement was placed because Jewish ritual slaughter tends to be
inhumane
It would appear that Jewish ritual slaughter tends to be inhumane, as
demonstrated in the following excerpt from the advertisement. (All ellipses and
all insertions within square brackets in this passage appeared in the original
advertisement with one exception — the material shown between square brackets in
a blue font had been deleted from the New York Times advertisement, and has been
put back in by myself. I found the deleted material in Seymour E. Freedman, The
Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds, Bloch Publishing Company,
New York, 1970, p. 43.)
U.S.A. 1961
"A number of years ago the Federal inspectors ruled that no animal is to be
slaughtered with its head resting on the floor probably for sanitary reasons.
Therefore the animal is slaughtered while hanging in the air suspended by its
hind legs with the head at the right height for the shochet [Jewish slaughterer]
to reach it. In order to do this properly it must be forced to remain perfectly
still during the time of slaughter. To render it incapable of movement, a rope
is attached to one of its front legs, then tied securely to the wall by means of
pulley and hooks while the head is made secure and immobile.... A plier with an
iron hook at either end is inserted in the animal's nostril [and] tightened....
The plier is then pulled by a rope and secured to the opposite wall so that the
front leg is pulled to one wall while the head with the help of the hooks is
pulled to the other wall, thus subjecting it to the most excruciating pain
imaginable.... The animal generally screams and bellows with agonizing pain
until the shochet cuts its throat thus putting it out of its misery." Excerpts
from a shochet's report, Jewish Press. Jan. 13, 1961.
U.S.A. 1967
"In a Kosher plant I recently visited, the hoist was operated until the steer
was hanging suspended by the leg with its face partly on the floor. The
slaughterhouse worker then turned the hose on the animal's face and neck so that
the animal got the full force of the water[, and then I witnessed something I
had read about as occurring in Kosher plants, that I could scarcely believe when
I read it. The packing-house employee deliberately plunged both his hands into
the steer's eyes until the eyes were displaced by being pushed back into the
head.] He then grasped the sides of the eye sockets and held the animal that
way while the shochet, the man who performs the kosher slaughter, stepped
forward to cut the steer's throat. The hoist was then operated again until the
animal's head was several feet from the floor and the animal was moved along the
motor driven line, hanging head downward, its full body weight suspended by the
shackled hind leg, ... every part of the body quivering.... While the
struggling was going on, the shackle was released and the steer was dumped on
the floor, still ... moving convulsively. These, in my judgment, were not
post-mortem reflexes. They were too violent. This entire procedure ... was
routinely and systematically carried out on all of the animals I watched being
slaughtered." Excerpts from a statement by the president of a national humane
society at a public meeting of Friends of Animals, Inc., Feb. 5, 1967.
Two photographs accompany the New York Times advertisement, which given that my
copy of the advertisement was made from microfilm, I have only extremely poor
copies of — nevertheless, I reproduce a small version of one of these
photographs which shows a cow hanging by one hind leg, with its neck and head
resting on the floor — who knows for what reason? Maybe this cow is already
dead; but maybe it is alive and conscious, and ready to have an assistant hold
its head from within its eye sockets so as to prevent its struggling to escape
during the work of the Jewish ritual slaughterer.
http://www.ukar.org/z/cowkosh.jpg
In connection with the shackling and hoisting depicted above, a source other
than the New York Times advertisement that we are discussing offers the
following observation:
For while the act of shechita [ritual slaughter] itself is humane, the method of
restraining the animal prior to the slaughter (as has been practiced in the past
and even today) is generally recognized as far from perfect. The shochet
[ritual slaughterer] is the first to admit this. The method (known as
"shackling and hoisting") currently employed in most abattoirs consists of
shackling the back feet of the animal with chains, and then hoisting it off the
floor so that its head hangs down awaiting the shochet's knife. It is presumed
(with some justification) that hanging an animal of eight to fifteen hundred
pounds from the ceiling by its hind legs is a painful, frightening experience
for the animal.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 33.
To Freedman's statement, we might feel an obligation to add several
qualifications: (1) that the act of shechita (ritual slaughter) itself is humane
is capable of being doubted, as will be discussed below; (2) shackling and
hoisting alone do not produce the degree of immobilization that the Jewish
ritual slaughterer requires, which may call for some further measure to be taken
prior to throat slitting, such as an assistant thrusting his fingers into the
animal's eye sockets, as described above; (3) if shackling and hoisting a cow by
both hind legs can be assumed to be painful, then shackling and hoisting the cow
by one hind leg, as pictured above, must be assumed to be even more painful.
(2) The advertisement was placed because the non-kosher public unwittingly eats
meat that comes from Jewish ritual slaughter
KOSHER OR NON-KOSHER — THE MEAT YOU NOW BUY IS RITUALLY SLAUGHTERED. About 90%
of all ritual slaughter is sold without the kosher designation. The cruelty,
then, continues largely because the non-kosher consumer unknowingly pays for it
through his meat purchases.
We understand, of course, that 90% of ritual-slaughtered meat being purchased by
non-kosher consumers is not at all the same as 90% of meat purchased by
non-kosher consumers coming from ritual slaughtering.
The goal of the New York Times advertisement, then, can be re-formulated as (1)
to halt inhumane slaughter, and (2) to propose the means by which this halt can
be achieved — which is by identifying for consumers meat that originates from
ritual slaughter, which will cause them to avoid it, and which in turn will
bring economic pressure to halt the practice:
The kosher consumer has already obtained the full protection of the state: When
he buys kosher meat the law assures him that it is the product of ritual
slaughter. The state owes the non-kosher consumer equal protection in the law:
You have a right to know that the meat you buy has been slaughtered by modern
methods. The section of the bill reprinted below protects you — and the animals
as well, because this law will force the slaughterhouses, through economic
necessity, to modernize the ritual.
The New York Times advertisement further instructs us that humane slaughtering
methods are available, and that there is nothing in Jewish religious law that
stands in the way of Jews adopting such methods
THE COMPASSIONATE CIVILIZATION
One cannot claim to be a civilized people while maltreating animals, by killing
them without first making them insensible to pain. Methods used in modern
slaughter render animals unconscious rapidly and effectively, after which they
can be shackled, hoisted, cut and bled.
In New York, Friends of Animals, Inc., has asked the legislature to pass into
law a measure to alleviate the extremes of fear and pain to which animals are
subjected. Please help pass this law — you owe it to the animals and to your
conscience.
This is slaughter of conscious animals. Several European countries have banned
it. In America it continues with the full approval of the religious officials
who work in the slaughterhouses.
CRUELTY KNOWS NO RELIGION AND RELIGION MUST KNOW NO CRUELTY
There is, in fact, no sentence in the Bible, and no injunction in the Talmudical
treatise on slaughtering (Chullin) against making the animal unconscious.
We are united against the slaughter of conscious animals, consider it a horror
in itself, and an abomination when coupled with the vicious devices used to
restrain conscious livestock. We have nothing to gain, neither on earth nor in
heaven, by slaughtering God's creatures while they are conscious.
[signature]
Rabbi Dr. Eugen Kullman
Department of Religion and Philosophy
New School for Social Research
Vice-President, Friends of Animals, Inc.
So, what's the problem?
Given that the above information in the New York Times advertisement is more
than three decades old, and from another country, it may be expected that it has
no application to Canada today, where humane methods of slaughter may be
expected to have been adopted long ago. However, this is far from a certainty,
and deserves investigation.
(1) One problem is that Jewish ritual slaughter has historically been allied
with inhumane methods of immobilization:
Jewish ritual slaughter has employed several procedures for immobilizing the
animal prior to its having its throat slit by the Jewish ritual slaughterer, all
of the procedures being cruel. Above, we have already seen two of these
procedures:
(1) the animal is hung by a hind leg, then has one of its forelegs pulled toward
one wall, and by means of an iron hook inserted into its nostril, has its nose
pulled toward the opposite wall;
(2) an assistant immobilizes the animal's head by forcing his fingers into the
animal's eye sockets. And below, we see a third variation — which is
(3) ramming a long, heavy stick into the animal's rectum, and pressing upward
against the spine:
Even for Kosher slaughtering, shackling and hoisting is a major correction over
previously employed methods of positioning the animal for slaughter. One
shochet, whose soul could not be at peace until he rid his abattoir of its
"practical brutalities," described his shock at the inhumaneness he witnessed.
[...] When a cattle driver has difficulties with a steer, he pushes the rod
against its hind part, including the rectum if necessary, and opens the switch,
thus giving the steer a painful electric shock. The steer was then made to face
the wall. Since normally an animal wouldn't stand in this position, another
very painful device was used to make him obey. A long heavy stick was forced
into its rectum by one of the employees and pressed upward. This immobilized
the animal to the spot. His entire spine arched and his body quivered with
pain.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 34.
(2) A second problem is that Jewish ritual slaughter may remain inhumane even if
humane methods of immobilization were adopted
We saw above testimony that the animal appeared to retain consciousness even
after its throat had been slit and it had been dumped on the floor. Do we have
reason to believe that throat slitting produces instantaneous death such that we
should disbelieve this testimony of prolonged suffering? In an attempt to
answer this question, I consulted a description of the throat slitting employed
in Jewish ritual slaughter:
Shehitah (Heb.), the Jewish method of slaughtering [of] permitted animals or
birds for food. Spotlessly clean sharp knife is drawn quickly and
uninterruptedly across throat, severing windpipe, esophagus, jugular veins, and
carotid arteries, causing immediate unconsciousness and death.
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Geoffrey Wigoder (editor), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Judaica, Leon Amiel
Publisher, New York-Paris, and Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, 1974, p. 548.
A diacritic dot underneath the middle "h" in shehitah was present in the
original, but was not reproduced above.
However, the above description fell short of dispelling my doubts. For one
thing, the severing of the windpipe, perhaps, does not lead to death, as air
might continue to be inhaled into the lungs whether it entered through the mouth
or through the opened throat at the level of the severed windpipe. Death might
more plausibly come from the severing of throat arteries which supply oxygen to
the brain. However, such a severing possibly does not cause an instantaneous
loss of consciousness either, as consciousness continues for some moments even
after the flow of fresh blood to the brain has been halted, and in any case,
vertebral arteries which are not mentioned as being severed by throat slitting
might continue to supply some oxygen to the brain.
Therefore, it may be hypothesized that Jewish ritual slaughter produces loss of
consciousness more slowly than does the shooting of a prong gun, otherwise known
as a bolt gun, into the animal's brain, such that it is possible that Jewish
ritual slaughter must always be less humane than modern methods, no matter what
improved immobilization technique it adopts.
(3) A third remaining problem is that Jewish groups have reliably, and often
successfully, opposed the introduction of humane methods to Jewish ritual
slaughter
Jews regularly resist the imposition of methods which render the animal
insensitive to pain, under the rabbinical objection that stunning the animal
prior to shackling and hoisting renders it trayfe, or unfit for consumption.
Worth noting in the following passage is that Jewish religious leaders reject
every method of rendering the animal unconscious which injures the brain, and
yet do not propose any alternative method of rendering the animal unconscious,
which reduces to Jewish opposition to rendering the animal unconscious:
In September 1893, Switzerland became the first government to introduce humane
slaughter legislation. It passed a law requiring that the animal be stunned and
made insensible to pain before being slaughtered. The stunning device used was
a hammer with which the animal was hit over the head. Later on, a bolt pistol
was employed, which had the same effect of stunning the animal, but refined the
procedure somewhat.
The Swiss move to insure humane slaughter was first introduced in the Canton of
Aragon, in Switzerland. The Jewish Community accepted the humane intent of the
proposed legislation, but not the procedure of stunning the animal. In most
instances the inaccuracy of the stunning procedure broke the skull of the animal
and pierced the membrane protecting the brain. This damage to the brain was
sufficient to make the animal trayfe, as would any fatal accident.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 35.
Immediately below, one might wonder what religious principle dictates that
damage to the animal's brain during slaughter renders it unfit for consumption,
but damage to the animal's throat, windpipe, esophagus, jugular veins, carotid
arteries, and neck musculature does not render the animal unfit for consumption:
In Norway, in June 1929, a law was effected which required stunning before
shechita, but which, as in the Swiss instance, rendered the animal trayfe
because of damage to the brain, and thus in effect outlawed shechita.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 38.
The following two passages suggest a widespread and long-standing effort to win
Jewish ritual slaughter exemption from humane-slaughtering laws:
Humane-slaughter legislation first appeared in the United States in 1958 in a
federal bill which outlawed the shackling-and-hoisting preparations of conscious
animals. The intent of this legislation was to reduce the potential of
suffering for the animal. The animal was to be stunned by a hammer or bolt
pistol prior to being hoisted. Senators Jacob Javits and Clifford P. Case
introduced an amendment to this bill which limited its power to non-Kosher
killing. Kosher-slaughtered animals were to be shackled and hoisted as before.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 40.
Other legislation introduced into state legislatures has followed this pattern
of exempting Kosher slaughtering from any limitations or controls. In 1967, for
example, bills were introduced in the New York State Legislature which aroused
strong emotion and debate in the Jewish communities throughout the state. One
such bill, sponsored by The Friends of Animals, Inc., [...] required that
non-Kosher slaughter be performed on animals that were rendered insensible to
pain because this is humane. The wording of the bill, while conceding to
shechita the privilege of continuing its method without change, implied that
shechita is not humane slaughter because it does not permit stunning the animal
prior to slaughter.
The Mason bill added further consternation by requiring the meat packer to label
meats either "Kosher" or "humane," creating an obvious division between the
Kosher and non-Kosher slaughtered animals which was uncomplimentary to Jews.
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Seymour E. Freedman, The Book of Kashruth: A Treasury of Kosher Facts & Frauds,
Bloch Publishing Company, New York, 1970, p. 41.
In summary, given that cruelty has been involved in several immobilization
techniques employed in Jewish ritual slaughter in the past, and given that even
if humane immobilization were adopted, throat-slitting may leave an animal
conscious for some unacceptable interval, and given that Jews have often
opposed, and won exemption from, humane-slaughter laws in the past, and on top
of that given the disproportionate influence Jews have over the Canadian
government and the Canadian press — given all that, the Canadian consumer or
animal-rights sympathizer may be excused for questioning the degree to which
Jewish ritual slaughter in Canada today has met contemporary standards for the
humane treatment of animals, and may be excused for thinking it prudent to ask
for evidence that Jewish ritual slaughter has abandoned its historical cruelty,
rather than merely assuming that it has.
Do we see Jewish resistance to humane slaughter continuing to more recent times?
The Jewish Telegraph Agency report of July 1992 below leaves the impression that
instead of defending Jewish ritual slaughter by demonstrating that it has become
humane, the Jewish response is to continue to deny consumers information that
they are eating Jewish-ritual-slaughtered meat. But if Jewish ritual slaughter
has become humane, then there should be no loss to Jewish income from allowing
the consumer to know whether the meat he is about to purchase originates from
Jewish ritual slaughter or not. Surely the Jewish practice of denying the
consumer information concerning the origin of his meat invites the hypothesis
that Jewish ritual slaughter does continue to be inhumane. ("Are currently
said" below should probably read "are currently sold.")
FROM THE
JTA
NEWSWIRE
Decision by European Parliament could raise cost of kosher food
The European Parliament has backed a move that, if implemented, could send the
cost of kosher meat in Britain skyrocketing. Members of the European
Parliament, the legislative branch of the European Community, declared that
consumers must be told if they are buying meat produced by religious slaughter.
But despite the politician's vote, an official at the European Commission, the
E.C.'s administrative body, said the proposal was unlikely to become European
law. David Massel, executive director at the Board of Deputies of British Jews,
described the vote as an "unwelcome development."
The proposed labeling of religiously slaughtered meat "stigmatizes shechitah as
something which is cruel," he said, using the Hebrew word for ritual slaughter.
"The Ministry of Agriculture has rejected such a move in Britain, and we hope
that view will prevail." Dayan Berel Berkovits of the Federation of Synagogues
Beth Din said he was "extremely perturbed."
Labeling implies shechitah is less humane than other slaughter methods, he said,
and there would be serious economic repercussions for the kosher trade. The
back parts of animals killed by shechitah are currently said to the non-Jewish
market because they are not kosher. But if shops were to start turning down
labeled meat, the cost would have to be passed on to the kosher consumer.
"If the man in the street reads a label saying that the meat has been produced
by ritual slaughter, his automatic reaction would be there is something wrong
with it, therefore it should be avoided," Berkovits said. "The hindquarters,
which are now sold to the general market, would no longer be acceptable, and
therefore the price of kosher meat would double or treble."
The proposal, put forward by David Morris, a British member of the European
Parliament, still must be approved by the E.C. Council of Ministers. But since
Britain, which is opposed to the labeling, holds the presidency of the council,
there are strong hopes here it will ultimately be rejected. But Berkovits
warned that until the right to shechitah is guaranteed in European law, "there
will always be a danger of amendments to interfere with or ban it."
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The Midwest Jewish Week, 17Jul92, p. 4.
I trust that you will agree that Dayan Berel Berkovits's statement in the final
sentence above irrationally confuses two things: (1) the right of the consumer
to know the origin of his meat, his right to boycott meat products that involve
needless cruelty, and his right to terminate his hidden subsidizing of needless
cruelty; (2) the banning of Jewish ritual slaughter through legislation. Only
the first was proposed by the European Parliament legislation, not the second.
According to the proposed legislation, Jews would enjoy the freedom to continue
Jewish ritual slaughter employing any degree of cruelty that they chose, and the
general public would enjoy the freedom to terminate their hidden subsidy of
cruel slaughter if they so chose. In Berkovits's egocentric and garbled logic,
if the public were to choose not to subsidize cruel slaughter, then this would
constitute an infringement on his right to practice his religion.
[...]
Some questions for you
(1) How do Jewish ritual slaughterers in Canada conduct themselves today?
How humane is Jewish ritual slaughter in Canada today? Has Jewish ritual
slaughter in Canada won exemption from humane-slaughtering legislation the way
that it has won exemption in jurisdictions outside Canada? Has any Jewish
ritual slaughtering in Canada today taken steps in the direction of adopting
humane practices?
(2) Should Jews be allowed to continue strangling the flow of information?
Do Jews have the right to deny the consumer information as to whether his meat
has been slaughtered using inhumane methods? Surely you will have to answer,
No, Jews do not have that right. Rather, it is the public which has a right to
know the origin of the meat that it consumes. Given that 90% of all
kosher-slaughtered meat goes to the non-kosher public, it follows that this
public has a right to demand labels informing it when meat has been
kosher-slaughtered, and when humane-slaughtered. Or in the alternative, if some
kosher slaughtering conducted in Canada today is humane, then the public has a
right to the humane vs. inhumane information, with some meat being labeled
"humane-slaughtered" and the rest labeled "inhumane-slaughtered." Optimally, of
course, the consumer should not be denied any information at all — his meat
should be fully categorized as kosher-humane, kosher-inhumane, or non-kosher,
assuming that all non-kosher meat must be humane by law, and so does not require
further sub-categorization.
(3) Shouldn't Jewish ritual slaughterhouses open themselves up to inspection?
If any effort is made by Jewish groups to win acceptance for the proposition
that their slaughtering today has become humane, would you issue an invitation
to all interested parties to inspect and to photograph any kosher-slaughtering
facility at any time and without prior notice? Nothing short of this will win
relief from the suspicion that even in the twenty-first century, Jewish ritual
slaughter has refused to divorce itself from its atavistic cruelty.
(4) Does Jewish ritual slaughter create monsters of depravity?
Is not one of the effects of cruel methods of slaughter the degradation of those
who engage in it? Can a man spend his day stretching suspended animals by
dragging their forelimbs in one direction, and dragging a hook through their
nostrils in the other direction; or plunging his fingers into their eye sockets;
or jabbing their spines by means of sticks rammed into their rectums; or
slitting their throats with a knife — all with the animals struggling and
bellowing and screaming — can such a man long retain his humanity? In the
knowledge that this suffering was avoidable, who but a brute would continue in
such an occupation? Or what normal man could long continue in such an
occupation without becoming brutalized? Who would associate with such a man,
knowing that the screams of tortured animals still echo in his ears, and that
the images of torn nostrils or crushed eyeballs still float before his vision,
and that the spurting of hot blood still tingles on his skin? Surely any modern
religion must view the creation of such a human monster as intolerable.
One wonders if there have not been studies of the incidence of psychiatric
disorders among individuals put to such work. One wonders if there have not
been studies of outbreaks of sadism and killing among them, not only directed at
the animals around them, but also at the people. One wonders if such
individuals were not the first to be recruited into the services of the
Cheka-GPU-NKVD to exercise upon humans the skills which they had become inured
to exercising upon animals. http://www.ukar.org/shapov01.html
One wonders if in today's litigious world, whether such a slaughterer or
slaughterer's assistant could not sue his synagogue for the devastation to his
mental well-being that years of being forced to practice gratuitous cruelty had
wrought.
(5) Have monsters of depravity proven useful to Jewish leaders?
Again we are confronted with an enormous incongruity — that it obviously is the
case that only some unfortunate Jew denied other opportunities will take the job
of slaughterer, or of slaughterer's assistant; and it is obvious as well that
the effect of such work on such an unfortunate Jew will be degrading and
brutalizing and dehumanizing. Why then would Jewish leaders permit any Jew to
be subjected to such degradation? How could they give up one of their
congregation to the hell of making animals bellow and scream with pain all day
long, day in and day out? Would any respectable Jew allow his son or daughter
to witness such a horror even once, let alone to witness it from a distance of a
few inches for hours, for days, for years — with the probability of emotional
twisting increasing with the duration of exposure? And if these scenes of
horror are ones that one protects one's family from, then how to justify
sacrificing any coreligionist to being immersed in them?
I can imagine only one answer to this question, which is that the product of the
corrupting experience was not without his utility. That is, in the Eastern
Europe of old, in Ukraine perhaps, Jewish leaders found it useful to be able to
call upon the services of a torturer, or an executioner, or an assassin, and
that the only Jew who could be counted upon to torture a human, or to take a
human life, competently and coolly is one who tortured and took the lives of
animals on a daily basis competently and coolly, who was used to being covered
with spurting blood, who was at home with the sensations coming from a knife
severing windpipe and throat muscles, and who more importantly had grown
unresponsive to the struggle of the victims to live, and to their bellowing and
screaming, and to the pain that they needlessly endured, who had grown used, in
short, to inflicting suffering and death in the service of his religion.
<<Tavish comment July 25, 2005: In relation to the above also see:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.ukrainian/msg/4ca11c6266305b63
Subject: The Holocaust Against Millions of Innocents by Christ Denier
Anti-Christs Continues V2-5 T_0704
Message-ID: <a13jc198f340couen...@4ax.com>
Date: 4 Jul 2005 19:22:12 GMT>>
If you can think of any other explanation for this incongruity of a religion
that creates monsters, that defends its right to create monsters, I will be most
interested to hear it.
(6) Doesn't the cruelty of Jewish ritual slaughter enhance Jewish cohesion?
Given that humane methods of slaughter have long been available, and given that
some Jewish scholars have long argued that nothing in Jewish religious law
opposes the adoption of such humane methods, and given that the world looks upon
cruelty within Jewish ritual slaughter with repugnance, and given that Jews are
threatened with economic losses for continuing cruelty within Jewish ritual
slaughter, how are we to explain the widespread use of inhumane methods, and the
widespread resistance to abandoning them? I can think of only one other answer
that can be added to the utility of creating a Jewish torturer-killer discussed
immediately above. The only other explanation that I can imagine for this
incongruity, and I think a much more important explanation, is that the essence
of Judaism lies in the incitement of anti-Semitism by Jewish leaders so as to
increase group cohesion among Jews, and thus to tighten the control of Jewish
leaders over Jews. Among the victims of Jewish ritual slaughter, then, may be
the Jewish people themselves, collectively, both those who favor ritual
slaughter and those who oppose it.
And here we arrive at a possible explanation for both of the two outstanding
characteristic of Judaism — endless persecution together with resistance to
assimilation — that is, Jews are endlessly persecuted because their leaders
engineer endless persecution, and Jews resist assimilation because of the fear
and hatred of non-Jews that their leaders have inculcated in them. The Jewish
people, in short, are the victims of their leaders.
If you have an explanation better than this one for the colossal incongruity of
Jewish leaders clinging to gratuitous and barbaric practices, I invite you to
share it with me.
Lubomyr Prytulak
<END>
Need I say more?
Tavish
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/e81e7e6846161b30
Subject: 3 Major Jewish Organizations Engage in Holocaust Denial in Addition to
Their anti-Christic Christ Denial anti-Christism V5.0 T_0205
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:48:03 -0600
Message-ID: <6iea01dq6bt8b3com...@4ax.com>
If Jews are allowed to call a historic event a "Holocaust" based on Jews being
tortured, imprisoned, and executed by Nazis then why can't Christians claim Jews
had "Holocausts" against non-Jews/Christians seeing how the 1st Century
Pharisees and the 20th Century Jewish led Bolshevists tortured, imprisoned, and
executed Christians/non-Jews. Jews also deny these other "Holocausts" so going
by their standards they are "Holocaust Deniers" and should be prosecuted for
"Holocaust Denial" and "Minimalizing the Holocaust[s])" as well!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/ed596bea483952b6
Subject: Post-Soviet Religion (What Communists did to Christians) V3-0 T_0625
Message-ID: <4plub1hmr6bnr2mpl...@4ax.com>
Date: 27 Jun 2005 02:00:38 GMT
How First Century Christianity Was Treated by Jews:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/c67d884d85bad07c
Subject: UPDATED The Most Heinous Murder Plot Ever Devised (For Your Archives &
Research) V2.5 R_0925
Message-ID: <m1p5nv4es86j78p5d...@4ax.com>
Date: 25 Sep 2003 13:23:49 GMT
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/72f2f6f3129d731b
Subject: Babylon the Great - Religious Persecution, Torture, Harassment R_0524
Message-ID: <k11ucvc1j4hl6s7av...@4ax.com>
Date: 24 May 2003 05:30:17 GMT
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/26ccb282e78d3d26
Subject: The Apostle Paul on Judaized Jews R_0524
Message-ID: <i31ucv4nvr6ehh6r2...@4ax.com>
Date: 24 May 2003 05:30:25 GMT
The first "Holocaust" was not Gentiles (Nazis) Against Jews
BUT was Jews (Communists) Against Christian Kulaks!!!
How Later Christianity was/is treated by Jews:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/7759bdc0ca737d99
Subject: Comparing Israel's "Anti-Christ Activism" to Other Middle East Nations
is NOT a Valid Comparison V2.5 R_0821
Message-ID: <upe9kvor1pdvm2ifa...@4ax.com>
Date: 21 Aug 2003 12:22:34 GMT
Jewish Led Bolsheviks Scalped & Crucified Christians by Philippa Fletcher
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.israel/msg/219f1a9a2ea94759
Subject: Bolsheviks Scalped and Crucified Christians -
Date: 1998/01/18
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http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/e364b24e60b8c04d
Subject: V3.0f Forefathers of the Soviet State and Anti-Christ Communism V2-0
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 21:34:42 -0500
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Doc Tavish
"Dayfid Urphing" <rip...@fpp.co.uk> wrote:
>Already fully debunked crap from a poster who is always full of crap.
That is two lies told by a person who can't refute obvious facts which are
documented and irrefutable!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.revisionism/msg/f7f6ab6885520e9?fwc=1
Subject: Jewish taxation without Gentile representation aka Jewish Tax_What I
Found in My Pantry
Message-ID: <ai6be15in9b7mjsrg...@4ax.com>
Date: 26 Jul 2005 03:27:40 GMT
Tavish
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.conspiracy/msg/87d1cf751ad2de2a
Subject: Goldhagen Vs Dawidowicz -- Anti-Semitism of Ukrainians Etc. Toward
Soviets Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:35:02 -0500
Message-ID: <i62pb1ljc0j2r73ir...@4ax.com>
Doc Tavish
<1122402571.8...@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> "Chris Larson"
<larsonc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
"[Sara Salzman] also said to "address the lie, not the liar," because Holocaust
deniers often make personal attacks when they run out of arguments."
http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2005/02/21/news/news02.txt
A non-debatable truth By ERIN FEESE Colorado Daily Staff
(Link active February 26, 2005. Archived locally as: CDCsaraCU)
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I say in like manner: "address the lie, not the liar," because Christ deniers
and their gentile Judases often make personal attacks when they run out of
arguments."
TRY ACTUALLY REFUTING WHAT I POST FOR A CHANGE!!!
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.revisionism/msg/f7f6ab6885520e9?fwc=1
Subject: Jewish taxation without Gentile representation aka Jewish Tax_What I
Found in My Pantry
Message-ID: <ai6be15in9b7mjsrg...@4ax.com>
Date: 26 Jul 2005 03:27:40 GMT
Chris Larson
Scott:
I don't speak with Christ denying, anti-christs such as yourself.
Please stop shitting on Judiasm & Christianity.
Thanks,
Chris
Doc Tavish
<1122465942.7...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> "Chris Larson"
<larsonc...@hotmail.com> wrote:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.revisionism/msg/f7f6ab6885520e9?fwc=1
Subject: Jewish taxation without Gentile representation aka Jewish Tax_What I
Found in My Pantry
Message-ID: <ai6be15in9b7mjsrg...@4ax.com>
Date: 26 Jul 2005 03:27:40 GMT
>Scott:
>I don't speak with Christ denying, anti-christs...
Then why are so such bosom buddies with Jews who are the original "Christ
denying, anti-christs" described in the Bible? That makes you not only a liar
BUT a Judas as well!
ANTI-CHRISTS IDENTIFIED:
1 John 2: 18 "Young children, it is the last hour, and, just as you have heard
that antichrist is coming, even now there have come to be many antichrists."
1 John 2: 22,23 "Who is the liar if it is not the one that denies that Jesus is
the Christ [or Messiah]? These things I write you about those who are trying to
mislead you!"
1 John 4: 2,3 "You gain knowledge of the inspired expression from God by this:
Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the
flesh originates with God, but every inspired expression that does not confess
Jesus does not originate with God, Furthermore this is the antichrist's inspired
expression which you have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world."
2 John 7,10,11 "For many deceivers have gone forth into the world, persons not
confessing Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the
antichrist. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never
receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. For he that says a
greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works."
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Having any sympathy for the anti-Christ offspring of Belial (aka Lucifer) is
having SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (who is their proud father who inspires them)-
which is at its core demonic and un-Christian!
Judges 20:13 "Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which
are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel."
2 Corinthians 6:15 "What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does
a believer have in common with an unbeliever?"
http://www.belial.org/enbib/whois.htm (Archived locally as: belial_whois)
"...the ruler of all these newly-made demons was the Prince of Evil, known as
(among other things) Satan, Lucifer, Leviathan and Belial. The fallen angels,
who earlier had worked hard for God, became pure, independent and the foremost
enemies of the Christians."
>Thanks,
>
>Chris
Stay stupid!
Tavish
Holocausts Jews have waged against non-Jews and Jewish denial of their
Holocausts against Christians/non-Jews:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.politics.nationalism.white/msg/e81e7e6846161b30
Subject: 3 Major Jewish Organizations Engage in Holocaust Denial in Addition to
Their anti-Christic Christ Denial anti-Christism V5.0 T_0205
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:48:03 -0600
Message-ID: <6iea01dq6bt8b3com...@4ax.com>
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