Kashrut
The long history of Jews and pigs.
“Every other store and street stand is devoted to foodstuffs.”
Seventh-Day Adventists and ersatz dairy.
Another accusation of Jewish cruelty?
As advanced computing allows food to be created in radically new ways, standard kosher categories will become increasingly less useful. What happens then?
Kosher slaughter is pronounced a danger to “public morals.”
Yet customers will keep coming back.
When Heinz baked beans got an “OU.”
Insects may be welcome on European plates, but not kosher meat.
European hypocrisy on animal rights and ritual slaughter comes straight from an ancient Christian heresy.
Europeans discomfited with the idea of animal cruelty could abstain from meat. But accusing halal and kosher butchers instead absolves the conscience and keeps the foie gras flowing.
Countries across Europe are cracking down on ritual slaughter, making the position of observant Jews and Muslims there more tenuous. Is concern for animals really the motivating factor?
It started with tourism.
“If we had no sense of disgust, . . . we would also have no sense of the sacred.”