Who will feed us meat?

Bamidbar 11
4. But the multitude among them began to have strong cravings. Then even the children of Israel once again began to cry, and they said, "Who will feed us meat?
5. We remember the fish that we ate in Egypt free of charge, the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
6. But now, our bodies are dried out, for there is nothing at all; we have nothing but manna to look at."
In verse 11:4 the marginal element among the Jews "lusted a lust" and began to complain. Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk in his classic text, Meshech Chochmah (3) asks what does it mean to "lust a lust"? Before we answer this let us look at verse 11:5. Here the Israelites go on to complain that they remember the free fish they enjoyed in Egypt. Yet as Rashi points out, nothing in Egypt was free. So what did the Jews mean? Rashi states that they really meant they wanted to be free from mitzvot. Rabbi Meir Simcha explains that since fish needs no special laws to eat it, such as shechitah, it was unencumbered, "free" food. So their lust for meat was a desire to eat meat like they used to eat fish - easily, with no mitzvah or spiritual element.
http://danzig.jct.ac.il/personal/behaalotecha.html

Agriculture Minister David Carter has rejected a recommendation from advisers that Jewish ritual slaughter of livestock be exempted from animal welfare rules to allow killing animals without preliminary stunning.
Animal welfare advisers had called for the ritual shechita slaughter to be allowed under the Bill of Rights - which provides for freedom of religious practice - but Mr Carter has issued the new code of welfare with a requirement that all animals commercially slaughtered first be stunned.
Read more: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/108181/minister-denies-nz-jews-a-kosher-kill

This morning when I read the article titled Minister denies NZ Jews a kosher kill, I immediately thought about the passage in this week's Torah portion about the Israelites complaining about the lack of meat. It struck me as amazing that the day before we read Parshat Behaalotcha in the synagogue which contains the passage about the lack of meat, a newspaper article reports that obtaining kosher meat will be harder. It seemed like G-d was sending a message. You complained about who will feed you meat in the desert when there was no need to as you were being sustained by the manna. - Now, thousands of years later, you do have reason to complain.
We frequently ask why a wicked person goes unpunished. We might not see the end result but there is reward and punishment, even of it comes about generations later.