Category: Kosher Slaughter

Following a 10-year PETA campaign, including three investigations, the Orthodox Union has banned this torturous slaughter method.

What do labels such as “humane,” “family-run,” “free-range,” “organic,” and “small-scale” mean? PETA will show you what “humane” farms won’t.

Eyewitnesses from PETA and Anonymous for Animal Rights (Israel) traveled to South America to expose one of the cruelest industrial cattle slaughter methods in the world.

File under “What were they thinking?” A Minnesota state senator wants to give inmates a license to kill.

Rosh Hashanah marks the new year for people and animals in the Hebrew calendar. So what better time for Jews to turn over a new leaf—one that will benefit themselves and animals, too? A kale leaf, perhaps, or arugula? Here’s one “leif” that helps animals: Jewish comedian Carol Leifer hilariously explains why she went vegan:… Read more »

Last fall, a jury found Sholom Rubashkin, former Agriprocessors CEO, guilty on 86 federal financial fraud charges. Now, a judge in the case has announced that Rubashkin will be sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $31 million in restitution! This is the culmination of a long, sordid history of financial… Read more »

Looking for a way to rebel against a Debbie Friedman–saturated childhood this Passover? OK, as the daughter of a Hebrew school principal/music director, maybe it’s just me, but everyone should check out Jewish-vegan-reggae-rock-hip-hop artist Matisyahu, whose video for “One Day” was rated one of the 10 most inspiring videos on the Web.     In… Read more »

You remember Agriprocessors, right? You know, the kosher slaughterhouse whose practices turned out to be anything but kosher? The one that lost 76 percent of its employees in an immigration raid and that filed for bankruptcy last week? Well, since Agriprocessors is (or, dare I say, was) the largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse in the world,… Read more »

I’ve got to say I wasn’t too shocked this morning when I read about a certain kosher slaughterhouse in a certain small town in Iowa being raided by the Feds over immigration violations. Yes, PETA’s old Postville, Iowa-based friend, Agriprocessors, has been busted yet again. As reported by USA Today, “76% of the 968 employees… Read more »

Three years ago, we went inside AgriProcessors slaughterhouse—the world’s largest Kosher slaughterhouse—and uncovered close to 300 instances of inhumane slaughter. Workers at that slaughterhouse were ripping the tracheas out of fully conscious cows and watching them writhe in pools of their own blood. As usual when we uncover this kind of abuse, the company hemmed… Read more »