[GCFL-discuss] Pets or Meat

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Guess  I've been using dull paper because when I get a paper cut it hurts
like now. I will be sure to use sharp paper in the future...


Dave
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [GCFL-discuss] Pets or Meat


>
> There have been several followup reports.
> Many rabbis (of great renown in the Kosher foods industry) and health
> officials have reviewed their procedures and found everything to meet the
> highest standards of Kashrus and humaneness.  Absolutely nothing needs to
be
> changed.
>
> Ever get a paper cut?  You don't feel it until much later?  The knife is
so
> sharp and the bleeding so extensive, that by the time the animal "feels"
the
> cut, her brain is incapable of feeling pain.  The movement that you see is
> reflexive.
>
> Pretty much everyone quoted in the original release either retracted his
> statement or said he was misquoted or quoted out of context.
>
> These are the same nuts who complained to a terrorist group because they
> used a donkey to transport a bomb, killing the donkey in the process.  The
> fact that people were killed by the bomb did not bother them.
>
> greenBubble
>
> PS I am not familliar with Moore's promising beginnings, (but, judging by
> what I do know of him, that's fine with me) and do not know what phrase
you
> refer to.
> gB
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>
> Subject: Re: [GCFL-discuss] Pets or Meat
>
>
> (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.
>
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