[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: horsemeat/ and koshering...
- From: Elsyd1@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:59:00 EDT
In a message dated 9/1/2006 2:53:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
irrenhaus4@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Kosher butchering hangs an animal up and
slits its throat, but still people buy the meat and eat it
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When "butchering" first started, there were very few ways to kill an animal,
compassionately or not. They probably beat it to death, or stabbed it
repeatedly to death. The ancient Jews felt that rapidly bleeding it to death
was
the most humane way (at the time). I personally think technology has
progressed
to the point where an animal can be dispatched more humanely.
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In Judaism, the shochet who is responsible for the killing of the animal is
not regarded merely as a butcher. He is expected to be a man of exemplary
piety to whom is entrusted the act of killing an animal for human consumption
in
such a manner that its death will be as quick and as merciful as possible.
In Jerome Rothenberg's phrase, the schochet was seen as a "technician of the
sacred."
It is also the job of the shochet to make certain that the animal is free of
blemishes and disease, which would make it unfit for food. The list of
damages to limb, genitals, membranes, etc is quite specific, and even the
sharpness of the knife and the manner of drawing it across the jugular vein of
the
animal is described in detail in rabbinic literature. The technique for
killing
the animal required a great deal of skill, to sever the jugular vein as
quickly and as thoroughly as possible so that the animal immediately lost a
great
deal of blood and lost consciousness in under a minute. Against a millennial
background of other communities hunting and maiming animals, trapping them
mercilessly, clubbing them, skinning them alive, bleeding them slowly to
death, shechitah was the most humane form of killing an animal, and it served
the
Jewish people as the sign, the guarantee to the community that animal life
would not be taken cheaply, and that the taking of it carried religious
obligations.
SYD MAILBERG
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