Posted on 07/18/2018 5:30:12 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
A regional politician in Austria defended a plan to limit access to kosher meat, conditioning its sale on permits that would be individually issued to observant Jews.
The Wiener Zeitung daily reported Tuesday about the draft decree in the state of Lower Austria, one of nine states that make up the federal Republic of Austria. Gottfried Waldhäusl, the cabinet minister in the state government of Lower Austria who is in charge of animal welfare and several other portfolios, defended the plan as necessary “from an animal welfare point of view.”
*** The Wiener Zeitung did not say whether the draft decree extends also to halal meat as well as kosher meat.
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I’ve reflected on the fact that the “captive nations”, due to being behind the Iron Curtain, were spared the waves of Turd-World immigration that has plagued Western Europe.
That’s why countries, like Poland and Hungary, still are “European” today, as they say, “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
Drive them all off the bridge into the drink.
Timeless scene from one of the great movies.
so this is a plan to register all the Jews with a central state authority…..did not go over good 80 years ago for those who registered with the state.
What about vegans?
they can eat each other
The halal you say???
No joke.
“If I’m a Jew in Europe I’m not registering up for any state-sponsored program.”
If you’re a Jew in Europe, you’d better be making travel plans if you want to have some semblance of a normal life. Europe today is Nazi without the Nazi’s.
Why would it be necessary from an “animal welfare point of view”? My understanding is that kosher law requires more humane animal slaughter than most regulations. I try to buy kosher hot dogs even though I’m not Jewish because the quality is better than Oscar Meyer and Ballpark, and I’ve also ordered kosher meals on plane flights in coach - the special diets get served first, and the food tends to be better quality.
I am no expert on Kosher rules, but my understanding is that those rules forbid mistreatment of livestock. This proposal sounds, um, fishy.
I’ve known Christians who bought kosher thinking it was of higher quality, safer or more humane. This rule certainly shuts out that market. Or the multi-cultural argument, the Muslims who buy kosher when halal is not available.
I know some secular Jews who still go kosher for food. How is a government going to determine if someone is religious enough to buy religiously mandated food?
The irony here is a government saying “We’ll register all the observant Jews ... for the safety of the animals”.
The Wiener Zeitung Is reporting about meat? Hmm.
True story: years ago at a rather nice place in Abilene, Tx, called Zetner’s Daughter I was eating the ham steak.
There was at the next table a young man with his date. She saw what I was having and asked the waiter about it.
“Is the ham steak Kosher?” she asked.
I do not question the wisdom of my ancestors.
Or as my husband puts it, if you can be picked out you are seen, if you can be seen you are hit, if you can be hit you are hurt and if you can be hurt you are dead.
Animal worshipers are a special kind of crazy.
So how is it they think killing animals other than slitting their throat quickly with an extremely sharp knife is more humane? It takes them a few seconds to die.
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