#shochet

I’m not going to go, in the short space afforded me here, into the bogus science surrounding slaughter that claims that slaughter without stunning is inherently cruel. I’m not even going to waste my breath on how some speak on the subject with such authority while ignoring the beauty and sanctity of thought that go into the kosher slaughter process; how I don’t’ know a single shochet — ritual slaughterer — who isn’t gentle and kind, whose first and only thought is making the death of the animal as swift and painless as possible.

Instead, I want to talk about the rank hypocrisy of Europe towards Jews. The well-meaning pats on the back when our synagogues are attacked, our people spat on, cursed at, murdered on European streets. “Europe isn’t Europe without Jews,” these people say. They commission reports, they publish them. They line up after a synagogue is firebombed. “We love you,” they say, “we are with you.”

Not for a split second does it occur to them how two-faced this is. How morally reprehensible it is to us to be told that we are important and that we matter, while they legislate our way of life out of existence in Europe.

“Stale Kosher Meat Sold To Gentiles, Says Butcher,” Toronto Star. May 16, 1932. Page 1. ---- H. Visfield, Wholesaler, Tells Kehilla Inquiry Unfit Stock Thus Disposed Of --- HAD FOUR SHOCHETS ---- When kosher meat became stale, and unfit for the purposes of Jewish butchers, it was sold to gentile meat retailers, H. Visfield, wholesale Jewish butcher, formerly connected with the Wm. Davies Co., and latterly with the Honeycide Co., told Assistant City Solicitor Campbell, at the Kehilla investigation, before Judge Tytler to-day.

Visfeld employed four schochets to kill beef for him, he said, and for kosher meat he paid a cent and a half a pound for the killing. This charge was rebated on the amount made to apply on subsequent business in the case of meat sold to gentile butchers, he testified.

‘How much stale meat did you have a week on an average?’ asked Mr. Campbell. ‘From 1,000 to 1,500 pounds.’

‘And how much kosher meat did you dispose of?’ Witness said he couldn’t remember. ‘Didn’t you keep any books?’ ‘No.’ ‘You know definitely how much stale meat you sold - you must know how much fresh meat?’ ‘No.’

‘Don’t hedge,’ demanded Mr. Campbell. ‘Are you trying to hide something?’ ‘No, sir. I can’t tell you.’

Shochet, como saber se a carne é kosher?

Shochet,  shehita e carne kosher! Como faremos para nos alimentarmos de carne  se não temos acesso a carne kosher, pois são muito caras devido a um imposto? Quem será nosso shochet,  a pessoa apta e treinada para realizar o abate dos animais de acordo com a lei judaica e designar se a carne está apropriada para consumo, se a carne é kosher? Atualmente, sabemos que  o principal importador de carne…