The Iowa Labor Commissioner\’s Office has sent dozens of alleged violations against Agriprocessors to the state attorney general for prosecution
An interfaith coalition — organized by a Jewish group — is planning to demonstrate next week in Postville, Iowa, in support of justice for workers and comprehensive immigration reform.
This week, the production slow-down at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, finally hit the nation\’s kosher markets and, by extension, kosher consumers
Mounting pressure from Jewish groups and members of Congress has led the largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States to start searching for a new CEO less than two weeks after federal agents arrested nearly 400 of its employees in a massive immigration raid
Brisket with Fennel and Olives; preserved lemons; Stuffed Nectarines a la Chez Panisse.
It surprised me that a company well-known for its concern for animal well-being and food safety would deem anything kosher treif, or unfit. Long before Whole Foods was even a glimmer in the eye of the Prius-tocracy, hadn\’t we Jews been telling ourselves and others that we were practicing humane slaughter and thoughtful animal husbandry — embodied in the very laws of kashrut? What did Whole Foods know that I didn\’t?
My act of civil disobedience — refusing to consume the flesh of once-living, breathing animals — has virtually no effect, perhaps none whatsoever. Agribusiness decides far in advance how many cows to raise and then slaughter without regard to my individual case.
To: My vegetarian husband
From: His guilt-ridden wife, who keeps falling off the vegetable cart
I am a vegetarian. I know there was a big controversy brewing over kosher meat, but I\’m not sure what the Jewish position
on vegetarianism is. I suppose as long as the vegetables are pulled from the ground in a quick and humane manner, no one can object too strenuously to it. I know God created animals, but I can\’t imagine He\’d be offended if I didn\’t eat them. I\’d hate to think of God pouting in His room saying, between sobs, \”I worked so hard on that lamb and Nemetz doesn\’t even touch it!\”
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