The news about Agriprocessors is spreading both within and beyond the Jewish community, reaching sites as nearby as a Jewish educators’ conference in Vermont, and as far away as acclaimed political publications like The Nation and The Huffington Post.  Check it out:

The CAJE Conference, a Jewish educators’ conference, which is largely focused this year on the connections between Judaism and ecology (to the collective sound of thousands of die-hard Jewish environmentalists slapping their foreheads and muttering, “finally!”)  reportedly decided to not serve any Agriprocessors’ meat during the conference.  The JTA’s Fundermentalist blogger author, Jacob Berkman, quote conference organizers as saying Agriprocessors’ products are “just not in the spirit of CAJE.”  Berkman also quoted Hazon’s own, Nigel Savage, who commented, “We want to shift the axis of what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century so that it necessarily means to be involved in the larger issues that concern us.”  Read it here. (hat tip: Arieh Liebowitz)

The Nation, known for its no-nonsense, lefty political commentary, included a brief mention of the Agriprocessors scandal in their most recent edition.  The Jew & The Carrot and I got a nice little shout-out in the article, along with a tally of how many times the Jewish Press has covered the Agriprocessors’ story over the last three months, since the raid.  (For the record: 11 articles in the NY Times, 12 in The Forward, 14 in The Jewish Week, and a whopping 25 in the JTA.)  Read it here.

More “Agriprocessors, elsewhere” coverage below

Vegetarian Times, a vegetarian lifestyle magazine, has a section called Carrot & Stick (which we at The Jew & The Carrot highly approve of), that awards “carrots” to do-gooders and “sticks” to companies and organizations failing to live up to ethical standards.  Not surprisingly, Agriprocessors was given the stick in VT’s most recent issue for “deplorable working conditions.”  The publication interviewed the Jewish Vegetarians of North America, who claimed “a major shift towards veganism” as a “significant step in responding to the current food crises.”

The Huffington Post  featured the words of Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, who said, “The convergence of activism in Iowa is not a blip; rather, it is a reflection of a budding Jewish social justice movement.”  Read it here.