Kosher Slaughter is the killing of animals for food but for Jews. They claim loud and long that killing their way, with the beast conscious is humane; that it is less cruel that stunning. You are fully at liberty to believe them. Equally you might feel that they are lying blatantly, grossly, obviously. The choice is yours.
If an honest Englishman runs a slaughterhouse he is bound by the law to stun, to do what can reasonably be done to make the whole thing quick and painless. The RSPCA would be delighted to prosecute if he goes wrong. So would a lot of people. Jews get away with it. English law is bad law, perverted for their benefit. They don't get prosecuted because they are too important.
What does the RSPCA do about them? It keeps very quiet but eagerly persecutes Fox Hunting Men. Perhaps tells you all that you need to know about the power of Jews. As to whether they practice what they preach; that is another matter.
The Failed Messiah tells us at length that they are corrupt, vicious, lying cheating, tax evading thieves. Is he wrong? He gives sources. He never gets sued for Libel. That is about as good as it gets in the way of public reporting of evil.
If you have studied the Jew Question you will not be surprised to find that the Kosher racket is also about money. If you doubt it go to Critical Kosher Theory ex Occidental Observer. Read for yourself. Think for yourself. Decide for yourself. If you haven't studied God's Chosen People you could start with The Case Against the Jews, a documented critique.
Halal Slaughterers Are Cruel [ 8 April 2017 ]
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One of the largest halal slaughterhouses in Britain is being investigated over allegations of animal cruelty. Undercover filming claims to show a slaughter man repeatedly sawing at the necks of sheep with a knife as they pass down a conveyor belt.The animals appear not to have been killed instantly – as should be the case – and some were seen fitting and jumping as they went down the line........ The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has now launched an inquiry based on the footage. It has taken steps to ban the slaughter man involved and could bring a criminal prosecution..........
The slaughterhouse at Dunnockshaw Farm, near Burnley, is owned by the Malik Food Group, which claims to be ‘the UK’s leading processor of Premium Halal Mutton, Lamb and Beef’................
Advocates of halal and kosher slaughter say this process means the animals quickly lose consciousness and so do not suffer.
This is rejected by animal welfare groups and the British Veterinary Association (BVA), which argues the public should at least be told if meat they are eating is from animals killed under religious ritual.
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The allegations that it is not cruel are blatantly wrong and that is assuming they do it right. Ditto for Kosher Slaughter but that is done by Jews so the Daily Mail isn't going to tell the truth about them. However a Jew out there does tell the truth - see e.g. Failed Messiah explains the Kosher Meat Scandals or the Rubashkin Scandals. NB the RSPCA keeps very quiet about kosher and halal but the Mail's readers are very much on side. The MALIK FOOD GROUP LTD is run by two Pakistanis and a Brit; a fact which the Daily Mail chooses to side step.
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What the Geonim permitted the far lesser rabbis of Chabad and Australia's version of Edah Haredit have banned. But don't worry. Even though ben pakuah meat would have dropped the price of kosher meat dramatically, these rabbis have your best interests at heart. And you can be assured of that because they they say so.
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In a 2010 letter to PETA, Agri Star's owner, Hershey Friedman, says it can't install 24/6 video monitoring of the animal handling areas of the plant and its grounds or of the slaughter floor area because the Postville plant's rabbis thought having cameras looking over their shoulders would hinder their jobs.
A JTA interview with Hershey Friedman, the wealthy haredi businessman who bought Agriprocessors and turned it into Agri Star, makes it seem as if Agri Star's slaughter is now humane. But is it?
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"…I have long learned that even the most benign products like water do need certification because of the complexities of modern mass production. Second, in a generation that is seeking to ingest everything kosher, why not offer the kosher certification, especially if the manufacturer seeks and desires the kosher certification as a marketing tool? …I wonder whether those whose knee-jerk reaction is to mock the kosher certification of a product that on the surface may not require kosher certification are in fact doing a disservice to kosher as a whole.…"
Lincoln Square Synagogue, the iconic Modern Orthodox Upper West Side congregation founded decades ago by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, allegedly told Joseph Allaham, the owner of Prime Grill and several other high-end kosher eateries in the city, that if he doesn’t withdraw his $1.8 million civil suit against Lincoln Square Synagogue, it will make sure that all of those eateries and their related catering operations lose their Orthodox Union OU Kosher supervision.
Sources in Israel’s treasury reportedly estimate inflated costs from the official state chief rabbinate’s kosher supervision monopoly costs Israel 300 million shekels (just under $77 million) per year alone. The chief rabbinate's kosher supervision of fresh produce adds about 1 billion shekels ($255 million) per year to that figure.
It’s official. There’s now kosher-certified pot and you’ll be able to buy it in New York next month – provided you have a doctor’s prescription and don't care that the kosher supervision is completely unnecessary.
The demand to employ inspectors was made after several incidents in which cellular stores in haredi neighborhoods that claim to sell only kosher devices were caught selling unauthorized devices or were caught tampering with so-called kosher devices to remove Internet and camera blocking code. Those stores had rabbinic supervision but circumvented it – in part because there is no active inspection protocol from the rabbis, the Rabbinical Committee for Communication Affairs claims.
Rabbi Avraham Yosef was charged with two counts of fraud and breach of trust for using his official position as chief rabbi of Holon to force businesses to pay for the private kosher supervision service owned by his father and brother, the Badatz Beit Yosef.
Continue reading "Rabbi Ovadia Yosef’s Son Indicted On Public Corruption And Fraud Charges" »
“We have a duty to warn and alert the public to the phenomenon which has spread in our city: the cheap culture of eating while walking in the street. This was considered cheap behavior of the fringes of society or the weak-minded until a few years ago, and the public would treat [the practice] as such."
Continue reading "Haredi Rabbis Ban Sidewalk Cafés, Grab-And-Go Fast Food" »
A young ex-haredi woman who worked as a shift supervisor for King Slice Pizza in the Jerusalem’s Bukharian Quarter for more than two years was fired at the insistence of über-haredi rabbis.
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It
took more than a 1,000 years to bring to fruition, but now
an ancient form of kosher meat will be commercially available
on wide scale for the first time since Hai Gaon – and the
rabbis don't like it.
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"…We note that Rabbi Balkany’s testimony is insufficient to overcome petitioners’ inadequate documentation, given the Administrative Law Judge’s finding that the Rabbi’s credibility was “completely unreliable,” a finding to which we defer…"
"Tzviya Eliyahu insisted Jews should only buy food from God-fearing Jews. There is no trusting a goy [an often derogatory term for a non-Jew], “even in his grave,” she said, because all goyyim all hate Jews and a goy “cannot maintain kosher standards for me. Don’t ask me why the [state] Rabbinate gives hashgacha [kosher supervision] to these stores [that employ Arabs].…"
Haredi, Chabad and Orthodox rabbis from across Europe lashed out at a new recommendation from the Dutch government’s official consumer safety watchdog that calls for all kosher slaughter to be banned.
Continue reading "Dutch Government Agency Recommends Ban On Kosher Slaughter" »
The Va'ad HaKashrus of Crown Heights is suing several Chabad-hasid-owned businesses and a Chabad rabbi for allegedly misusing their CHK kosher symbol. The parties being sued apparently allege that the CHK doesn't actually control the symbol – the hasidic Jews of Crown Heights do.
Continue reading "Who Owns Chabad's Crown Heights Kosher Seal?" »
Cedar Rapids, IA-based Midamar and Islamic Services, along with brothers Jalel and Yahya Nasser Aossey, were named in a Dec. 5 indictment alleging 92 charges. However, all defendants reached plea agreements with government prosecutors just before a jury trial that was scheduled for last month. In a separate trial in mid-July, William B. Aossey Jr., father of the two Aossey brothers, was convicted by a jury on 15 of the 19 charges brought against him. He was taken into federal custody pending sentencing, and his appeal for a new trial was recently denied.
Continue reading "Defendants In Halal Meat Fraud Plead Guilty" »
Many of the violators are Sefardi haredim who got their patronage positions through the Sefardi haredi Shas Party, and now Jerusalem’s Sefardi haredi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar, a former chief rabbi of Israel, has reportedly blocked implementation of a simple and otherwise non-controversial proposal designed to reduce that corruption.
A video shot by an anonymous citizen shows thousands of dead, bloody kapparot (kaporos) chickens dumped in the garbage in Crown Heights, Brooklyn even though kapparot spokesmen have insisted the chickens are donated to the poor to eat.
Continue reading "Hasidim Lied: Video Shows Thousands Of Kapparot Chickens Dumped In Garbage" »
…A white-bearded man waded into the chaos brandishing two chickens by their wings in the face of Michelle and other activists gathered to protest the slaughter. Reaching over a barricade with both hands, he mashed the two chickens into a protester's shirt. Asked to explain his actions, he declined to identify himself, but said a woman had grabbed his wife and daughter. Another circle formed around a videographer and Michelle. This time she yelled, "You people are sick!" and "Don't fucking touch me!" The assembled men responded with chants of "Shiksa, shiksa," "Go fight ISIS," and "What about abortion?" A young man named Larry McDrew jeered from one side, "I'm gonna get you."…"
Anti-chicken-kapparot (kaporos) protesters sometimes behaving badly as haredim try to defend a cruel and wasteful custom that was widely regarded by medieval rabbis as pagan in origin and something that should not be done.
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Haredim in Ashdod, Israel attack a car occupied by anti-chicken-kapparot activists, smashing the car's windshield and shoving tree branches though the car's side windows.
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When Israel's Ministry of Agriculture tried to place ads in haredi newspapers asking haredim to use money for the kapparot ritual rather than live chickens, the newspapers – Yated Ne'eman, HaMevaser, BaKehila, HaPeles and Hamodia – refused to run the ads. The lone haredi publication to agree to run the ads was the relatively moderate Mishpacha Magazine, which agreed to run the anti-chicken-kapparot ad – but only if a quote from Rabbi Yosef Karo, the author of the Shulkhan Arukh (Code of Jewish Law) opposing kapparot was removed from it.
Continue reading "Haredi Papers Refuse To Run Anti-Chicken Kapparot Ad Placed By Government" »
Animal welfare activists protest haredi kapparot (kaporos) centers in Israel and in Brooklyn. The protest in Brooklyn was especially large, and the mood on the street outside haredi neighborhoods and among non-haredim who live in or adjacent to haredi neighborhoods appears to have shifted from a sort of disinterested neglect to a growing anger at haredim and at the corrupt politicians who do haredi leaders' bidding.
Continue reading "Video: Anti-Chicken Kapparot Demonstrations In Israel And Brooklyn" »
"Certain anti-Jewish and anti-tradition forces have come to try and stop the Minhag [custom] of Kaporos with live chickens from taking place. [Chabad's] NCFJE, who sponsored the community kaporos for decades, is going out of its way to make special efforts in order to ensure that the opposing forces will not affect the kaporos operation.…"
Continue reading "Chabad Leader Calls Animal Welfare Activists "Anti-Jewish…Forces"" »
In hidden camera footage you can see and hear police make statements about the Brooklyn kapparot center's operation that are false. They don't appear to be lying, they just appear to be badly informed by their superiors. There's also video of an unsanitary kapparot center and the public sidewalk and street that abuts it and another video of chickens being mistreated.
Watch Brooklyn hasidim curse at anti-chicken-kapparot (also spelled; "kaparos") activists in front of children and try to get a chicken to defecate on a female activist's head.
"…Feces
and feathers were everywhere on a public sidewalk and the
stench was overpowering.[…] Behind a curtain blowing in the
wind, we could see chickens being dismembered. A man wearing
a bloody white apron intentionally stomped on an unlucky
bird who fell to the ground while trying to get away…" And a
hasid used a well-known non-verbal sign to tell an
anti-chicken kapparot activist to f-off.
Continue reading "Picture of the Day: Hasidic Kapparot In Action" »
Plaintiffs repeatedly asked New York City to enforce the law and stop the unsanitary and often cruel chicken slaughter-cum-haredi-ritual known as kapparot (kaporos) from being held on public streets and sidewalks. The city refused, despite more than ample evidence of animal cruelty and dangers to public health. But a Manhattan judge known in the legal community for her bizarre decisions ruled the city doesn't have to enforce the law. Now you can read her reasons for saying so.
Judge Debra James, who issued a confused ruling Monday that essentially said citizens can't sue to force governments to enforce health, safety and other public codes, has a long history of befuddling rulings that make little – and sometimes no – legal sense.
Continue reading "Kapparot Lawsuit Judge Viewed As Dense, Out Of League, By Attorneys" »
Slaughter chickens on the streets of New York City to your heart’s content no matter who it offends or potentially sickens. An elected New York State judge, Debra James, ruled Monday that there was insufficient evidence to ban the kapparot chicken slaughter atonement ritual. Why? Essentially, because she says so.
A Ditmas Park [Brooklyn, New York] landlord is attempting to harass his rent-stabilized tenants out of their apartments by failing to keep heat and hot water on in winter, allowing vermin and mold to run rampant, and refusing to keep the property safe and secure for kids, claim residents who filed a suit against the owner, Sholom Rubashkin, on Tuesday.
"…You are most likely aware, that for the last ten years or so I have been the consulting Rabbi for the development of a line of very special Ben Pekuah cows and sheep…These animals are unique: they are Kosher without the trouble or the expense of needing to check their lungs, so there is zero risk of hurried or improper checking. They are all Glatt Kosher. Their hind-quarters may be eaten without the trouble or the expense of removing the forbidden fats nor the sciatic nerve, the Gid HaNasheh, so there is zero risk of incomplete removal of these forbidden components.…"
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The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos was in Manhattan court today to back 19 Brooklyn residents who have asked a judge to issue an order to stop the ritual slaughter of chickens on public sidewalks and streets during the run-up to Yom Kippur.
Mauzone Mania allegedly misrepresented the calories, fat, fiber and carbs in its products posing "unacceptable risks to consumers, especially those with medical conditions that would put them at risk if they consume the mislabeled or falsely advertised products"
Administrator Rabbi Moshe Gutnick, of the Kashrut Authority which supervises kosher food services, said labeling [non-kosher] meat sold to the general public as kosher-slughtered would lead to "hysteria" from people who don't understand and unnecessary economic backlash.
Ladies, you can even choose what sex your child will be – as long as you make sure to keep your eyes on the ball.
Hebrew National, the iconic producer of kosher deli meats and hot dogs whose slogan is “we answer to a higher authority,” has posted videos on its website touting the use of its kosher hot dogs in high-end recipes that include bacon, shellfish and other non-kosher ingredients. But are OU supervised food companies any better?
The Landwer café located in Independence Park near downtown Jerusalem has agreed not to open on Shabbat after haredim threatened to pull the kosher certification from Landwer Coffee, a separate company founded by the same family but now completely separate from the café chain.
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The Knesset Internal Affairs Committee began an investigation of Jerusalem’s official state religious council and its associated kosher supervision company today after Jerusalem’s Zionist Orthodox Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern went public with evidence of widespread corruption. Police are now deciding whether or not to open a criminal fraud and public corruption investigation.
After finding widespread alleged corruption, including many rabbis who hold no-show jobs as kosher supervisors for the city's kosher supervision agency, top aide to the new Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Aryeh Stern is slated for dismissal by the allegedly corrupt rabbis who control Jerusalem's official government religious council. Stern is Zionist Orthodox and a relative moderate, as is his top aide, Avinoam Kushner. The corrupt rabbis and public officials Stern and Kushner are fighting appear to be haredi and Sefardi-haredi.
The raid took place after police first completed an undercover investigation that uncovered as yet unspecified illegal activity at the council, which oversees all local religious services from synagogues and mikvahs to local kosher supervision.
It reads like something out of an American political scandal from early 1970s. Dirty tricks. An office burglarized and sensitive information stolen. But this isn't Washington, DC – it's Jerusalem, and players involved are almost all rabbis.
On Sunday, the High Court of Justice is slated to hear the petition of restaurants that want to be allowed to sell their food as “kosher but not under rabbinic supervision.” Israel's haredi-controlled Chief Rabbinate and both haredi political parties strong oppose the restaurants' petition and are demanding the government pass a new stronger kosher food law that would force restaurants to get official kosher supervision from the Chief Rabbinate or from one of its local satellites.
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Several witnesses have seen a food truck [in New York City] bearing an unauthorized KOF-K symbol. The company is called King Tut Halal Food and the KOF-K– PAREVE symbol is prominently displayed.
Here's the entire lawsuit as filed by the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos on July 2. It's meant to stop kapparot operators like Chabad's National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education from operating in residential areas of New York City.
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Critical Kosher Theory ex Occidental Observer
CriticalKosherTheory is primarily derived from 1) the 2019 consumer research conducted by the KosChertified? Team titled “A Quantitative Study on Kosher Certification: Seal Visibility and Public Awareness,” 2) the book by Suzanne Bousquet: From Kosher to Halal: When Greed, Politics and the Sneaky Destruction of Western Civilization Intertwine and, 3) from the experiences of our staff in the past three years investigating the kosher certification industry in pursuit of delivering answers to The Kosher Question while advocating for religious freedom and consumer rights in a fair and honest way for all citizens.1. Without deception, the kosher industry would not be as ubiquitous as it is. Reasoning: the vast majority of the revenue feeding this religious enterprise comes mostly from outside Jewish congregations. Over five decades ago rabbis from kosher agencies claimed that they kept their hekhsher (kosher seal) unusually small so as not to offend non-Jewish consumers, and today they claim that they have no control over the size of kosher seals – even though they stipulate the strictest contracts. Our study suggests that a Deceptive Trade Practice is in play among the companies and agencies. We estimate that this enterprise would be entirely different, perhaps 5% or less of its current size, if completely run by religious volunteers from the congregations that observe Kashrus. We discovered that keeping consumers in the dark with little transparency and a lot of obscurity is key to sustaining and growing their business. Arguably, the kosher agencies can stipulate in contractual words a mandatory legibly sized hekhsher (kosher seal) to be displayed on labels with the morally correct addition of the bold text “KOSHER CERTIFIED”. But they don’t.
2. If label transparency was honest, kosher brands might lose business to NKC products NOT Kosher Certified. Reasoning: Our surveys indicate that more than half of consumers desire no religious intervention in the production of their food or they desire a “higher” transparency indicated on the labeling when this is the case. If this group was “kosher aware” and if companies were legally forced to display large and clear kosher labeling, companies might opt for keeping away from kosher certification to access this greater share of the market. Of course, there are other factors pressuring companies to kosher-certify their goods that we are not privy to, for instance, distribution and supermarket management demands.
3. When dollar signs start entering the religious aspects of Kashrus, it is perverted with greed and corruption, even in “holy” Jerusalem. Reasoning: Israel’s ynetnews reveals a darker side of the kosher certification business occurring in the Jewish State itself. If such criminality can occur among the rabbis and inspectors in Jerusalem, then similar or worse conditions may exist in America where the kosher revenue is largely derived from outsiders of the Jewish congregations. This behavior was further leaked by professionals at the International Food Safety and Quality Network in their forum, and by Jewish journalists themselves at the New York Daily News.
4. Give ‘em an inch, they’ll take a mile. Reasoning: There are plenty of laws protecting the kosher-keeper, and plenty of IRS law that benefits religious organizations, but no laws protecting the consumer from religious groups co-opting secular businesses, instituting their particular rules and laws, and wringing out revenue from companies where consumers have no reason to suspect outside religious involvement. These consumers are unfairly being taken advantage of, and the parties involved in the kosher enterprise have shown no compassion or even tolerance for how they may feel regarding outside religious intervention in their secular livelihood. Further, given that approximately one million observant kosher keepers are actively buying kosher certified products with deceptively obscured transparency of kosher seals, their silence must be an admission that they find no shame in this religion-based fraud.
Looking back into history…
Jewish women rioted en masse in the early 1900s, resulting in national kosher laws across America protecting kosher-keepers. But kosher laws protecting kosher keepers were not good enough. Preferential IRS laws for religious organizations allow kosher agencies more protections by keeping their finances out of public scrutiny. It is one matter to have laws for protection of particular groups. It is another matter entirely to take advantage of people outside the specific religious community, especially where they are forced into becoming unwitting contributors to the financial gain of a religious congregation they do not belong to. This is immoral; it degrades religious freedom for the out-group. Most Americans perceive religious organizations as moral and honest, but here we find a business practice throughout the industrialized world that is tied directly to untouchable religious NGOs that do all within its power to conceal the facts from consumers.
Our very own Federal Trade Commission ignores whistle blowers on the kosher industry. As a result, as generous as the American government has been to accept religious pluralism and to accommodate protection for the kosher industry and kosher keepers, no effort is extended to protect the general consumer who is not a kosher keeper. The insiders of the kosher industry do not seem to have concerns for the out-group, consistently citing marketing data from pro-kosher associations.
5. When food companies contract with the kosher certification industry, there is a veil of silence that shrouds the details that its patrons inquire about. Reasoning: The companies won’t tell us, so we can’t tell you until an insider whistle blower appears on the scene. Our experience in confronting food companies with questions usually results in silence, or incredibly vague responses with little detail. Our educated presumption is that there are non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements contracted by the kosher agencies and food companies keeping the details in the dark.
6. Major efforts are undertaken to suppress “kosher awareness” from the public, but no efforts to curtail Talmudic “separatist” laws like Bishul Akum. Reasoning: Articles from the ADL and Reveal News magazine attempt to scare away inquisitive minds on The Kosher Question, but are they willing to look into OU Kosher’s own article on three post-Torah Kashrus proscriptions that enforce separation and xenopobia? Of course not.
After reading the article linked above by OU Kosher, “Bishul Akum: Playing with Fire,” a serious double standard is exposed with respect to the entire enterprise of kosher certification. Clearly, these religious experts prescribe that strict observers of the Kashrus dietary laws are to be highly exclusionary, to avoid gifts (like a meal “fit to be served at a royal table” or a bottle of wine) from members of outgroups as a measure to limit socialization, new friendships, and closer relationships. And yet the behavior of this industry is towards imposing its religious rules and dogma onto “others” outside their synagogues with little to no possibility of escape. If this industry was tolerant and fair to other religions and peoples, they would insist with the contracting food companies to produce equivalent products free from kosher certification, thus permitting choice. But they don’t, and so the whole application of these proscriptions within the kosher world is the ultimate hypocrisy.
7. Kosher Supremacy rules over America, and food companies are complicit in depriving EQUITY to people of diverse faiths and identities. Reasoning: Synonyms of the word ‘Supremacy’ are Authority, Control, Predominance, and Hegemony. The kosher industry enjoys all of these, and more. There are no major churches, religious organizations or advocacy groups working on behalf of consumers and citizens who are against this practice of kosher certification. There is no equity and religious freedom for the vast majority. They are effectively marginalized. You will not find a kosher-certified product “X” and the same branded product “X” without kosher-certification for those consumers who would like to abstain from Jewish intervention.
8. It is easier and more profitable to co-opt existing industry and make it serve ancient particularism of Kashrus law than to build its own industry from scratch. Reasoning: History indicates that the Jewish community had the financial resources to fund an entrepreneurial and niche kosher food industry to serve specialty kosher markets and kosher sections of supermarkets or general stores. But this would have necessitated full funding by the Jewish community. By contracting directly with existing producers, the kosher community built a certification industry on mostly non-Jewish capital and have created a highly profitable enterprise. Of course, we don’t know how profitable it is, because that information is shrouded in secrecy.
9. Mammon rules. As society “progresses”, more secular companies submit and pay to implement ancient kosher law requirements, while few observe “Blue Laws” of old Christian culture in Western Society that allowed a day for rest and worship. Reasoning: Businesses closed on Sundays in the 1960s and earlier because of local laws that eroded away in time. However, the practice was a religious and moral one serving the culture of the times. Today, all but Chick-Fil-A stores have shed this Sunday closing on economic grounds. But more and more companies are submitting to kosher agencies and their stipulations on ancient dietary laws. Early America was dominated by Christian morals and culture, especially by the early settlers. But this culture has been transformed, and it is clear that either we are living in a purely Judaized culture, or mammon is now running the show. Or both.
10. Ubiquitous kosher certification, as it currently is implemented, is a strategy that abuses the last vestige of moral fiber and good will that bind the American society. Reasoning: Edward Bernays, a Jewish man named as one of the top 100 influential Americans of the twentieth century by Life magazine, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, and an expert on public relations and propaganda, stated: “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”
Well, one organized habit of Americans nationwide is buying kosher certified products, but 90% may not know it, and people generally don’t like being duped. What little mention there is in American news articles regarding kosher food is entirely positive, with none of the many downsides. One 1954 speech made by a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Mrs. Marian Strack) took aim at this business, and the press struck hard against her, silencing honest and balanced debate regarding all aspects of this matter. Our food culture and all the particular interests that this undisclosed kosher revenue feeds have been shaped by figures unseen to the public.
After nearly one century, food manufacturers refuse to produce equitable products free from kosher certification aside from their kosher-certified versions. Access to the national “free” marketplace will eventually be driven by submission to the dogmatic kosher agencies’ will.
As Ms. Bousquet sums up at the end of her masterpiece, From Kosher to Halal:
The accommodations described as ‘reasonable’ directly oppose the historic secularism model, the only guarantee of equality of treatment for all citizens. This project must rest on clear positions applicable to all issues of religious intrusion into civic and public space. No violations should have been tolerated, and should not be in the future. … We must, quite simply, determine the following: (1) What norms are acceptable for the public sphere (commerce)?, (2) What kind of practices should be relegated entirely to the private sphere? and (3) What norms demonstrably contravene animal welfare? [referring to controversial religious slaughter]. … The last word belongs to consumers.
Allow us to conclude with this brief comment: When the masses discover the schemes, the trust will be lost. But is CriticalKosherTheory just one facet of a larger group evolutionary strategy? That remains to be answered.
This article originally appeared at the KosChertified? website—the go-to place for information on the kosher racket.