"Eggs are generally considered kosher, but what about eggs from chickens who spend their entire lives imprisoned in a cage one cubic foot in size? Food pellets are brought to them on one conveyor belt; their droppings and eggs are taken away on another. The Bible forbids us to torment animals or cause them any unnecessary grief. Raising chickens who can go out sometimes and see the sky or eat a worm or blade of grass is one thing, but manufacturing them in the concentration camp conditions of contemporary "poultry ranches" is quite another."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi with Donald Gropman, The First Step: A Guide for the New Jewish Spirit (New York: Bantam Books, 1983), p. 74
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kashrut
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Kashrut
5 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Kashrut →
Related Quotes
"With the possible exception of sex, there is no more basic human activity than eating, rendering it an appropriate ca…"
"As a rabbi I am often called upon to determine the kashrut of various food products and institutions. I am appalled b…"
"Moses … denied to the members of the sacred commonwealth unrestricted liberty to use and partake of the other kinds o…"
"Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as…"
"Halakhic man, well furnished with rules, judgments, and fundamental principles, draws near the world with an a priori…"