Undercover footage reveals abuse at South American slaughterhouses that exports to Israel
At many of the South American facilities exporting beef to Israel, cows are still subject to “shackle and hoist” slaughter – a kosher method already denounced years ago by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. Continue reading>
Hebrew coverage from another news source can be accessed here
Undercover Investigation Reveals 'Incredibly Disturbing' Kosher Slaughter in South America
Undercover video footage taken by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals revealed the persistence of the practice, which the OU has condemned for years. Their investigation was a joint venture with the Israeli group “Anonymous for Animal Rights.” Continue reading>
Shackle and Hoist Video
A PETA investigation of a South American slaughterhouse that supplies kosher meat to the U.S. and Israel reveals the continued use of "shackle and hoist" despite promises from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to phase out this method of slaughter. Watch it here>
Widespread Slaughter Method Scrutinized for Alleged Cruelty
Over the past few decades, kosher meat producers have learned what many others in the industry know: The broad expanses of rural Argentina and Uruguay have everything needed to make great beef, with a stable climate and seemingly endless pastures for grazing. The labor is cheap, and the open pastures on which the cows are raised mean that much of the meat can be marketed with those increasingly alluring tags of “natural” and “free range." Continue reading>
Chief Rabbinate ‘against’ shackle-and-hoist method
Kashrut, other dietary activists: South American practice of chaining steer’s leg to lift animal for ritual slaughter is cruel, abusive. Read more>
Conservative Movement's Teshuva on Shackling & Hoisting
Now that kosher, humane slaughter using upright pens is both possible and widespread, we find shackling and hoisting to be a violation of Jewish laws forbidding cruelty to animals and requiring that we avoid unnecessary dangers to human life. As the CJLS, then, we rule that shackling and hoisting should be stopped. Read more>
Widely condemned cattle-killing method is used by kosher meat firm's supplier
Import records and undercover video show the 'shackle-and-hoist' slaughter technique is used at a South American plant that supplies Alle Processing, the biggest seller of kosher meat in the U.S. Read more>
Farm Forward's Updates on Shackling and Hoisting
Read more>
A Cut Above:Shechita in the Crosshairs, Again by Rabbi Moshe T. Schuchman, Star-K Kashrus Administrator
When pressured by kosher slaughterhouses, which were to incur considerable expenses eliminating the ‘shackle and hoist’ mechanisms, Rabbi Soloveitchik replied, “I am willing to fight to defend shechita, but not shackle and hoist!” Read more>
At many of the South American facilities exporting beef to Israel, cows are still subject to “shackle and hoist” slaughter – a kosher method already denounced years ago by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. Continue reading>
Hebrew coverage from another news source can be accessed here
Undercover Investigation Reveals 'Incredibly Disturbing' Kosher Slaughter in South America
Undercover video footage taken by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals revealed the persistence of the practice, which the OU has condemned for years. Their investigation was a joint venture with the Israeli group “Anonymous for Animal Rights.” Continue reading>
Shackle and Hoist Video
A PETA investigation of a South American slaughterhouse that supplies kosher meat to the U.S. and Israel reveals the continued use of "shackle and hoist" despite promises from the Chief Rabbinate of Israel to phase out this method of slaughter. Watch it here>
Widespread Slaughter Method Scrutinized for Alleged Cruelty
Over the past few decades, kosher meat producers have learned what many others in the industry know: The broad expanses of rural Argentina and Uruguay have everything needed to make great beef, with a stable climate and seemingly endless pastures for grazing. The labor is cheap, and the open pastures on which the cows are raised mean that much of the meat can be marketed with those increasingly alluring tags of “natural” and “free range." Continue reading>
Chief Rabbinate ‘against’ shackle-and-hoist method
Kashrut, other dietary activists: South American practice of chaining steer’s leg to lift animal for ritual slaughter is cruel, abusive. Read more>
Conservative Movement's Teshuva on Shackling & Hoisting
Now that kosher, humane slaughter using upright pens is both possible and widespread, we find shackling and hoisting to be a violation of Jewish laws forbidding cruelty to animals and requiring that we avoid unnecessary dangers to human life. As the CJLS, then, we rule that shackling and hoisting should be stopped. Read more>
Widely condemned cattle-killing method is used by kosher meat firm's supplier
Import records and undercover video show the 'shackle-and-hoist' slaughter technique is used at a South American plant that supplies Alle Processing, the biggest seller of kosher meat in the U.S. Read more>
Farm Forward's Updates on Shackling and Hoisting
Read more>
A Cut Above:Shechita in the Crosshairs, Again by Rabbi Moshe T. Schuchman, Star-K Kashrus Administrator
When pressured by kosher slaughterhouses, which were to incur considerable expenses eliminating the ‘shackle and hoist’ mechanisms, Rabbi Soloveitchik replied, “I am willing to fight to defend shechita, but not shackle and hoist!” Read more>
