Kosher Slaughter Outlawed In New Zealand – Jews Insist It Is Humane
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New Zealand has become the fourth country to outlaw Jewish ritual slaughtering, authorities said Sunday, after Iceland, Norway, and Sweden took similar measures in the past.
Under the newly instated Animal Welfare Commercial Slaughter Code, announced by David Carter, New Zealand’s Agriculture Minister, commercially killed animals would have to be stunned before slaughter, making kosher slaughter, or shchita, illegal, according to the Jewish Australian News service.
According to the report, while the new regulations are to take immediate effect,
kosher beef will be able to be imported into New Zealand.
Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence, the former leader of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation, told the Jewish Australian News that “there is a strong body of veterinary and animal welfare research which continues to confirm shechita as a humane method of slaughter of the highest standard.”
Minister Cater reached the contentious decision, despite the fact that the report compiled by The National Animal Welfare Advisory Council, on which Carter based his decision, stated that “that the rights of the New Zealand Jewish community to practice its religious beliefs accorded by the Bill of Rights Act must be balanced against animal welfare considerations.”
The Australian news agency added that the report also said that other alternatives short of an outright ban on shechita could be made available to the government.
Kosher foods are those that conform to the rules of the Jewish religion. These rules form the main aspect of kashrut, Jewish dietary laws.
Reasons for food being non-kosher include the presence of ingredients derived from non-kosher animals or from kosher animals that were not properly slaughtered, a mixture of meat and milk, wine or grape juice (or their derivatives) produced without supervision, the use of produce from Israel that has not been tithed, or even the use of cooking utensils and machinery which had previously been used for non-kosher food. These might include utensils and machines used for making pork or other non-kosher products.
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ma jat a fa na varc i kinott!!!!!!!!!
New Zealand is NOT a Jewish country. Jews should accept that they need to respect the country they live in if it isn’t Jewish – just as muslims must.
Isn’t it odd that all these religious people seem to think that respect is a one way street.
Good for New Zealand.
You live here you do it OUR way. You don’t like OUR way? Fair enough. Go somewhere else.
I’m waiting with baited breathe for a complete ban on full face burkhas over here.
PLEASE PLEASE ban the bloody things. Respect OUR ways or leave.
Do for me.
Humane and slaughter don’t belong together EVER. I even name my dust bunnies under a big cupboard, because I don’t want to see them die.
Although is it not Identical, ‘Halal’ is the Muslim equivalent of ‘Kosher’, Jews and the Arabic Muslims are closely related.
Kosher – More religious BS!