Agriprocessors Key Documents

PETA Writes to Agriprocessors After Receiving a Whistleblower Complaint About Its Postville Facility (June 18, 2003)
Nathan Lewin, Agriprocessors' Attorney, Rebuffs PETA (August 26, 2003)
PETA Responds to Agriprocessors (November 3, 2003)
PETA Writes to the Orthodox Union Asking for an Official Endorsement of Five Humane Slaughter Recommendations (November 29, 2004)
PETA Writes to Abraham Rubashkin, President of Agriprocessors, Asking for Changes in Light of Our Investigation (November 29, 2004)
Second Letter to Abraham Rubashkin, President of Agriprocessors, Asking Again That Changes Be Made at the Postville Facility (December 6, 2004)
Letter to Rabbis Genack and Weinreb of the Orthodox Union Asking That They Take Action to Stop Cruelty to Animals (December 6, 2004)
Letter to Rabbis Kohn and Edelstein of K'hal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) Regarding Cruelty at Agriprocessors (December 10, 2004)
Official Statement of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement
Orthodox Union Issues Statement in Response to PETA
PETA Issues Statement in Response to Orthodox Union
Reply to Nathan Lewin's Article in The Jewish Week
Response to Rabbi Avi Shafran's Article "The PETA Principle"
Reply to Rabbi Menachem Genack's Article in Jewish Press
Reply to Michael Rosen's Article in FrontPage Magazine
Reply to Menachem Lubinsky's Article in Jewish Press
Fourth Amendment Complaint to William C. Smith of the USDA Asking That Agriprocessors Be Held Accountable for Its Crimes
Food Marketing Institute-National Council of Chain Restaurants (FMI-NCCR) Guidelines for Humane Slaughter, Recommended by Leading Experts
PETA Addresses the Orthodox Union's Failure to Disclose Audits of Agriprocessors
USDA Report Finds That Agriprocessors Violated Humane, Kosher Laws

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