Comments on: Meaty Advice for the High Holidays http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:36:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11362 Leah Koenig Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:24:38 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11362 for veggie recipes, check our archive http://jcarrot.org/recipes/ all best, Leah for veggie recipes, check our archive

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all best, Leah

]]> By: Al Hunter http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11360 Al Hunter Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:00:15 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11360 Thanks Leah, I guess I should have mentioned that I'm in Canada. I knew of kosher bison in the US, but shipping is only within the USA. I'm not sure about the American experience, but in Ontario most bison are grain finished. It's taken years to develop a relationship with those few farmers that only raise grassfed. My pot roast has only another hour to go and it really smells delicious. My daughter is vegetarian. Do you have any suggestions on what I can make for her? Thanks Leah,
I guess I should have mentioned that I’m in Canada.
I knew of kosher bison in the US, but shipping is only within the USA.
I’m not sure about the American experience, but in Ontario most bison are grain finished. It’s taken years to develop a relationship with those few farmers that only raise grassfed.
My pot roast has only another hour to go and it really smells delicious.
My daughter is vegetarian. Do you have any suggestions on what I can make for her?

]]> By: Leah Koenig http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11359 Leah Koenig Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:02:12 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11359 Hey Al, There are places to get kosher bison, which, like most bison is raised on pasture and generally has a better existence than your average feedlot cow. I'm personally a vegetarian, so I wouldn't eat the meat you're serving this week, but I don't think that's quite the same as rejecting it. Here's one kosher bison website I found - I'm sure there are others. http://www.legalmix.com/kohnskosher/mbison.htm There's also Wise Organic Pastures, which raises organic kosher meat and chicken. http://www.wiseorganicpastures.com/catalog/ Shana tovah! Leah Hey Al,

There are places to get kosher bison, which, like most bison is raised on pasture and generally has a better existence than your average feedlot cow. I’m personally a vegetarian, so I wouldn’t eat the meat you’re serving this week, but I don’t think that’s quite the same as rejecting it.

Here’s one kosher bison website I found - I’m sure there are others.

http://www.legalmix.com/kohnskosher/mbison.htm

There’s also Wise Organic Pastures, which raises organic kosher meat and chicken.

http://www.wiseorganicpastures.com/catalog/

Shana tovah!
Leah

]]> By: Al Hunter http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11358 Al Hunter Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:46:30 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11358 Ok. No replies to provide guidance. I have no time left. Tonight I'm going to going to have to start cooking a fully grassfed bison brisket for Monday night. Except for the details of the slaughter not being kosher, this meal will actually be healthy and nutritious. My purchase and consumption benefits the farmer and his local community who don't submit to commercial pressure and actually believe that grassfed rather than grainstuffed is better for us, the animals, the land. and the local community. If I served this meat to you, would you reject it? Ok. No replies to provide guidance.
I have no time left. Tonight I’m going to going to have to start cooking a fully grassfed bison brisket for Monday night. Except for the details of the slaughter not being kosher, this meal will actually be healthy and nutritious. My purchase and consumption benefits the farmer and his local community who don’t submit to commercial pressure and actually believe that grassfed rather than grainstuffed is better for us, the animals, the land. and the local community.
If I served this meat to you, would you reject it?

]]> By: Al Hunter http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11340 Al Hunter Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:12:29 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11340 I'm not Jewish, but married into a Jewish family. My meat of choice is fully pastured, locally raised bison. I buy direct from the farm. The animals are humanely slaughtered in small abattoirs within the farming community. The actual slaughter is not certified kosher because those facilities do not exist here. Any certified kosher meat available locally comes from the corporate agricultural industry with all their associated health, environmental, and social problems. Is there an ethical solution for me without becoming vegetarian? I’m not Jewish, but married into a Jewish family.
My meat of choice is fully pastured, locally raised bison. I buy direct from the farm. The animals are humanely slaughtered in small abattoirs within the farming community. The actual slaughter is not certified kosher because those facilities do not exist here. Any certified kosher meat available locally comes from the corporate agricultural industry with all their associated health, environmental, and social problems. Is there an ethical solution for me without becoming vegetarian?

]]> By: Elad The Great http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11272 Elad The Great Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:46:17 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/meaty-advice-for-the-high-holidays/#comment-11272 Wow, thanks for this incredibly insightful blog. As a Baal Teshuva Jew, I am constantly reevaluating every part of my life, and it is very powerful to realize how much even something as seemingly normal and physical as food can become a part of that. I really appreciate this blog, and it came at the perfect time, right before the holidays. Feel free to check out my blog at: http://eladthegreat.wordpress.com Wow, thanks for this incredibly insightful blog. As a Baal Teshuva Jew, I am constantly reevaluating every part of my life, and it is very powerful to realize how much even something as seemingly normal and physical as food can become a part of that. I really appreciate this blog, and it came at the perfect time, right before the holidays.

Feel free to check out my blog at:
http://eladthegreat.wordpress.com

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