[GCFL-discuss] Pets or Meat

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(to borrow a phrase from Michael Moore's promising beginnings)

I think PETA also says even if experimenting on rats produced a cure for
AIDS, they would oppose such cruelty to rats.

I did see a news article about a video tape of a slaughterhouse that
produces Koher meat. There were a lot of different quotes, some of them
suggesting that rabbinical sources found the way the meat packer
conducted its work did not conform to Kosher law as it should. The
company was reportedly going to make some adjustments.

If I understand correctly, Kosher law is supposed to provide for human
slaughter techniques, with minimal pain and suffering, but does not allow
for the animal to be stunned first. Also, the blood must be drained out
quickly, because of the prohibition on eating blood, because "the blood
is the life." I generally can't keep track if that is from Leviticus or
Deuteronomy.

It sounded like the factory was trying to speed production, without
insuring that the animals were dead and fully insensible before
proceeding to the next step.

Siarlys

P.S. No wonder Ramadan wanders so much. But I usually see the Eid stamp
in December. I guess the Post Office wants to get all its cultural
relevance out of the way at one time of the year. I made a point of using
the Eid stamp a lot in 2001. Anyway, we don't need to reduce everything
to common denominators like "The Holidays" to be mutually respectful.
That is why homogenized "nondenominational prayers" are so silly -- if
they are that acceptable to everyone, they don't really say anything to
or for anyone.