tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post110201384549757091..comments2023-10-29T11:50:25.742+02:00Comments on My Obiter Dicta: Shechita ControversyJeffrey R. Woolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1104192910486901522004-12-28T02:15:00.000+02:002004-12-28T02:15:00.000+02:00I happen to know people at PETA. They purposefully...I happen to know people at PETA. They purposefully do obnoxious stunts to get publicity for their cause. They hope that you might dislike the messenger, but at least you'll see the message. I think this is a wrongheaded policy, because people are not as rational as that. But I hope that when you consider PETA in the future, you separate the "real" issue from their often offensive or over-the-top presentation. I can assure you that they are not in any way anti-Semitic, and in fact a great many of them are Jews.<br /><br />In the case of this contraversy, please judge not based on PETA, but based on the evidence. Watch the video for yourself. Read the statements of experts that say these animals are suffering horribly. This is not the way kosher slaughter is supposed to be done, and not the way it usually is done in this country. But as long as this is approved by halachic authorities, we cannot have faith that kosher meat is humane. (Indeed, others have pointed out that we cannot in any case, because the animals are raised in the same notoriously cruel factory farms that non-kosher meat comes from -- definitely only buy Humane Certified meat in any case!)<br /><br />FYI - Jewish Vegetarians of North America is involved in this issue from a Jewish (non-PETA) point of view. Their website is JewishVeg.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1102671316250047772004-12-10T11:35:00.000+02:002004-12-10T11:35:00.000+02:00I am willing to agree on the issue per se. My susp...I am willing to agree on the issue per se. My suspicions about PETA, overall, remain as they were.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1102441358365197122004-12-07T19:42:00.000+02:002004-12-07T19:42:00.000+02:00My posting was prior to the disqualification of th...My posting was prior to the disqualification of the shechita by the Rabbinate and the OU. Furthermore, I understand that, relative to the vast numbers of animals slaughtered, these were horrfic exceptions. PETA has an agenda. Its agenda is anti-Shechita and videos such as these lend themselves to misuse. So, while I agree that the zaar baale hayyim must be dealt with, PETA must be held in the greatest suspicion.Jeffrey R. Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11315625918870195028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030144.post-1102429117526741772004-12-07T16:18:00.000+02:002004-12-07T16:18:00.000+02:00May I strongly recommend that you watch the video,...May I strongly recommend that you watch the video, at http://www.goveg.com/feat/agriprocessors/<br /><br />How would you have recommended that PETA let people know about what is apparently avoidable tzaar baalei chayim of hundreds of thousands of animals? Not release a video of the truth because it might remind scholars of a Nazi film? I'm not impressed with this comparison when so much is at stake.Uri Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04102215705115503890noreply@blogger.com