As European countries involve themselves in regulating kosher meat, the scandal involving horsemeat found in Europe continues to grow.
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson
is due to meet food industry representatives for the second time in a week to
discuss the horsemeat crisis.
Mr Paterson told the Commons on Monday that it appeared "criminal activity" had been at the heart of the scandal.
MPs will discuss the issue after Labour called a debate on Tuesday afternoon.
It comes after some Tesco Everyday Value spaghetti bolognese, withdrawn from sale last week, was found to contain 60% horsemeat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21421477
Joshua Gelernter discusses kosher meat regulation.
The English tried expulsion, the Italians tried ghettos, the Spanish had the Inquisition. The Russians had the Pale of Settlement. The Germans had gas chambers. And after the Germans were stopped, having got only half the job done, Europe’s better elements thought that perhaps enough was enough. For the first time in its collective history, overt Jew hatred was shunned in polite European society.
And so, Europe’s profound (Freudian?) Semite-loathing needed other outlets. The number-one outlet these days is, of course, spewing bile at Israel. But another, more fringe, outlet is obstructing Jews’ religion. Mainly, by outlawing kosher meat.
Kosher slaughter of animals is illegal in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland, where laws require that animals be stunned before being killed. A similar ban is being accommodated in Holland and discussed in Britain. The two sides of this fight, as it’s understood by Europeans, are supporters of religious freedom on the one hand and opponents of animal cruelty on the other.
Everyone who sees the argument that way misses the point. The regulations of kosher slaughter aren’t an archaic religious tradition flying in the face of “animal rights”; they’re PETA’s progenitor.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/02/12/outlawing-kosher-meat-and-europe%e2%80%99s-profound-semite-loathing/
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