Comments on: Questioning kashrut: is there a difference between religious ethics and moral ethics? http://jcarrot.org/questioning-kashrut-righteousness-and-right Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Roberta Schiff http://jcarrot.org/questioning-kashrut-righteousness-and-right/comment-page-1#comment-13681 Roberta Schiff Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:12:59 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=3114#comment-13681 Thank you, Nina, for sharing your thoughts and processing. If we look at the very simple, but extremely meaningful phrase Bal Tashlit (do not destroy needlessly) and apply it to the unnatural ways animals are raised for food, the 10 billion who killed each year and the huge amount of resources needed to raise and process them we can easily conclude that not consuming them or at least really reducing our consumption is the right thing to do. This applies to both kosher and non-kosher killed animals. Thank you, Nina, for sharing your thoughts and processing.

If we look at the very simple, but extremely meaningful phrase Bal Tashlit (do not destroy needlessly) and apply it to the unnatural ways animals are raised for food, the 10 billion who killed each year and the huge amount of resources needed to raise and process them we can easily conclude that not consuming them or at least really reducing our consumption is the right thing to do. This applies to both kosher and non-kosher killed animals.

]]> By: rejewvenator http://jcarrot.org/questioning-kashrut-righteousness-and-right/comment-page-1#comment-13655 rejewvenator Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:16:28 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=3114#comment-13655 Kashrut has been shaped as much by the industrialization of meat production as anything else. As R. Mandel said, the rear half of the carcass is discarded because in an industrial production setting, it is inefficient to remove the nerve and <i>chelev</i> (prohibited fat}. The job requires time and expertise. Better instead to sell the back half to non-kosher meat producers who can sell them to their market at a healthy profit. The carcass is certainly not discarded unused! Kashrut has been shaped as much by the industrialization of meat production as anything else. As R. Mandel said, the rear half of the carcass is discarded because in an industrial production setting, it is inefficient to remove the nerve and chelev (prohibited fat}. The job requires time and expertise. Better instead to sell the back half to non-kosher meat producers who can sell them to their market at a healthy profit. The carcass is certainly not discarded unused!

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