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The Iowa secretary of agriculture, chief rabbinate in Israel, and the Orthodox Union weigh in on AgriProcessors. Read their reactions here.
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AgriProcessors workers ignore the suffering of cows who are still sensible to pain after having their throats slit by the ritual slaughterer. The animals stagger and slip in blood while their tracheas dangle from their necks.
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Statement of Rabbi David Rosen,
Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland
New York Times, December 3, 2004
The manner of the slaughtering of animals as well of animal treatment generally as shown in this video, involves flagrant violation of Jewish halachic (religious legal) requirements. I join my greatly respected colleague Chief Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen in declaring that such behaviour desecrates Jewish teaching and values and the meat of the animals abused in this way is rendered totally non-kosher as a result.
Rabbi David Rosen
Former Chief Rabbi of Ireland
The Forward, December 3, 2004
"'I certainly saw enough evidence of mobility on the part of the animal to conclude that it is not dead,' said Rabbi David Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland and one of the rabbis whose comments are used in PETA's literature. Also troubling for Rosen was what he saw as the 'pulling out of the trachea and esophagus by hand' after the incision had been made. 'I've been in many slaughterhouses in my time,' he said, 'and I've never seen anything like that.' On the whole, Rosen concluded, what is shown in the video is a 'flagrant violation' of Jewish law, or halacha."
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