PETA strikes again...

[Gato_Solo]

PETA: Kosher Slaughterhouse Abusing Animals

DES MOINES, Iowa — An animal rights group has captured videotape that it says shows cattle at a kosher slaughterhouse enduring an "absolutely outrageous" level of cruelty.


PETA (search) claims the video, posted on its Web site Tuesday afternoon, shows repeated acts of animal cruelty at AgriProcessors Inc. (search) in northeastern Iowa. The organization filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (search) on Monday that alleged improper slaughtering practices.

"They're ripping the tracheas and esophagi out of fully conscious animals, dumping them out of pens into pools of their own blood. The animals stand and bellow and attempt to escape for up to three and even four minutes in some cases," Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said late Tuesday.

But Rabbi Chaim Kohn, the plant's supervising rabbi, told The New York Times in Wednesday's editions that the tapes were "testimony that this is being done right." In kosher slaughter, the animals' throats are sliced with a razor-sharp blade, intended to cause instant and painless death. Jewish law forbids stunning them first.

Once again, they try to force their agenda on somebody else...

I'm sure they realize that, in the wild, death can take much longer...It's not always like you see on the nature shows...

 

[ClaireBear]

"They're ripping the tracheas and esophagi out of fully conscious animals"

My understanding of Jewish kosha practice may be a little rusty (its been over a year since I last taught it to school kids) but isn't that the right (and only) way to kill an animal to provide kosha meat?

Sure the animal suffers... but what do PETA want? The Torah re-written?

Things just go from the sublime from the stupid!

 

[Gato_Solo]

My understanding of Jewish kosha practice may be a little rusty (its been over a year since I last taught it to school kids) but isn't that the right (and only) way to kill an animal to provide kosha meat?

Sure the animal suffers... but what do PETA want? The Torah re-written?

Things just go from the sublime from the stupid!

The Jewish Orthodox Rabbi overseeing the plant stated that the throats were cut with razor-sharp blades...the only way permitted under Kosher practices. Of course, PETA would spin this a bit different. How a cut can change to a rip is beyond me.

 

[ClaireBear]

How a cut can change to a rip is beyond me.

Well from my decade's experience of leg... and er other areas... shaving... I reckon over use would blunt a blade... needing more force to be applied.. the cut wouldn't be a clean... but "ripping"? With what? Bare hands?

I reckon a cut can change into a rip very easily if and only if you're a PETA spindoctor!

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

I'm sure they realize that, in the wild, death can take much longer...It's not always like you see on the nature shows...

You give them too much credit. I'm not sure these idiots "realize" where they shit at last, much less anything else.

I'm tellin' ya, sometimes there just ain't enough bullets to go around...

 

[Professur]

I knew I liked you from the start.

 

[tank girl]

Once again, they try to force their agenda on somebody else...

sounds familiar...

 

[PostCode]

You know, this kind of stuff makes we want to pack up the BBQ, head on over to their headquarters, fire up the grill and throw a big ol' fat slab of steak on it (making damn sure I'm cooking this big ol' baby up wind) then eat it right in front of their building. Hell, I'd like to eat it right there in their lobby, making sure I drip fat all over their carpet.

 

[Inkara1]

I'd be inclined to stop by the drive-thru at Carl's Jr. and get a Double Guacamole Bacon Six Dollar Burger on the way over there... wait, don't they have Hardee's over there instead of Carl's Jr.? Make it a Monster Thickburger instead.