“We are excited to work with our local partners in Nebraska and South Dakota to make Local Pride a full part of the Gordon community,” Sholom Rubashkin, whose family owns Local Pride, said in a press release. “For us, this effort represents the best of all worlds: The Gordon plant is a great business opportunity that will allow us to better serve our customers who rely on us for kosher meat products prepared according to the tenets of our faith. And in Gordon, we have found a place this business can call home, where we can be part of a great community and join with our neighbors in making it even greater.”
June 28, 2005...9:14 pm
Rubashkin Ready To Open New Nebraska Slaughterhouse
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June 29, 2005 at 5:54 am
We need to keep in mind that this latest effort by Rubashkin has followed upon, and taken advantage of, the following lack of progress since the AgriProcessors’ scandal went public last winter:
1. The shameful failure of the USDA to issue any information regarding the PETA Complaint.
2. The shameful failure of the Iowa Waukon City prosecutor to issue any information on another PETA Complaint.
3. The shameful failure of the OU, KAJ and others to come clean and begin moving on eliminating cruelty on factory farms.
We need to accept that there will, most likely, be no progress in the future on the above.
But Jews who are concerned can simply vote against Rubashkin in the marketplace by purchasing animal products from humane sources, such as Rosenblatts’ Texas Kosher Beef outside of Dallas, Blackwings Kosher Bison or from other sources such as these. Better yet, one can decide to eliminate animal products from their diets completely.
John K. Diamond
Member, Advisory Board
Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA)
June 29, 2005 at 8:40 am
It seems that the Jewish community (and others) are continuing to ignore the devastating effects that animal-based diets and agriculture are having on human health and environmental sustainability and how they violate Jewish mandates to take care of our health, treat animals with compassion, preserve the environment, conserve natural resources, and help hungry people.
It is time that the many moral issues related to our diets be on the Jewish agenda.
June 30, 2005 at 1:50 am
This website has become a hotbed of anti-Chabad and vegan activism. What a strange combination.
Of course, animal-based diets have been around since Noah, while veganism (as it is practiced in America today) is at most 40 years old… and I have yet to meet a Vegan who I didn’t find to be an oddball.
Of course, perhaps almost no course of action has been taken against Agroprocessors because they did very little wrong. The only people who have asserted otherwise the members of PETA, an extremist organization. The OU, KAJ, and the rest of us are happy with our meat, and have no ‘beef’ with Rubashkins.
Shmarya, if you want to eat tofu, be my quest.
June 30, 2005 at 6:40 am
Shraga,
I very respectfully ask that you read Rabbi David Sears book “The Vision of Eden” and afterwords, reconsider your opinions.
John
June 30, 2005 at 6:48 am
It is not good that when one buys some meat that one can still hear it ‘ moo ‘
June 30, 2005 at 8:35 am
So the debate is at a standstill until I find this out-of-print book and finish it…
Or, rather: Look, its clear from Shulchan Aruch that one should eat chicken or beef on Shabbos and Yom-Tov (On Shabbos for Oneg, pleasure, and on Yom-Tov for Simcha).
Don’t tell me that some Rabbi who is supposedly a “Kabbalist who is well read in Chassidic philosophy” will disprove 2000 years of Jewish tradition.
Pass the steak.
June 30, 2005 at 9:17 am
Shraga,
“So the debate is at a standstill until I find this out-of-print book and finish it…”
Yes, it is important to do some reading before continuing with this discussion. Fortunately, the book is in print. See the Orot web site or go to (Amazon/Barnes and Noble) where it may also be available.
John
June 30, 2005 at 9:23 am
I’m not going to pour through another book every time you disagree with me. This is especially so if the discussion is about something as simple as this subject. Vegetarianism is a new phenomenon in the Jewish world, and in the world at large (with the exception of the Hindu world, which, as you know, we aren’t a part of).
June 30, 2005 at 9:34 am
Shraga,
“So the debate is at a standstill until I find this out-of-print book and finish it…”
These are your words.
Simply abide by them.
John
July 1, 2005 at 12:48 am
I guess the lack of meat makes one impervious to sarcasm.
July 1, 2005 at 6:18 am
Shraga,
My request stands.
Read “The Vision of Eden” and I’ll be glad to continue this discussion.
Otherewise, it’s a waste of my time.
John
July 12, 2007 at 2:44 pm
I HOPE THEY EXPERIENCE THE SAME FATE.