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Holland backs off kosher-food threat (Eurotrash-idiot alert)
WorldNetDaily ^ | December 14, 2002 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 12/15/2002 3:36:08 PM PST by Jacob Kell

The Jewish way of slaughtering animals has been safeguarded from restriction by government officials in Holland thanks to productive negotiations between rabbis and the country’s Agriculture Department, according to the executive director of the Jewish community in Amsterdam.

As a result of those talks, Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch minister of agriculture, has now issued a new instruction that allows the Jewish community to continue slaughtering as it has done in the past, says David Sephos. A limitation of three seconds has been introduced in which the cut has to be performed. A previous ruling limiting the number of movements of the knife has been abandoned.

In a WorldNetDaily story published Dec. 3, it was reported that Holland had become the latest nation in Europe to ban the kosher slaughter of animals. Jewish officials in Holland say they are satisfied the negotiations of last summer end any imminent threat to the production of kosher meat.

Other European nations have indeed banned the practice of kosher slaughter, and others are considering restrictions on the practice.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrightswackos; antisemitism; cowardlyappeasers; holland; jewishcustom; kosher
To he** with Europe. When the Islamists take over, and the Europeons come whining and crying like little bit**es to us for help, we should say. Sorry, no way.
1 posted on 12/15/2002 3:36:08 PM PST by Jacob Kell
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To: Jacob Kell
The strangest thing is the similarity between kosher and halal. The Dutch probably relented when they realized the jihadists would be adversely affected as well.
2 posted on 12/15/2002 3:49:19 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: Jacob Kell
The prohibition against eating meat with the blood still in it was one of the few ritual prohibitions observed by the early Church, after Peter and the Apostles did away with the other Jewish observances. See Acts 15:29: "That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication."
3 posted on 12/15/2002 3:57:40 PM PST by Cicero
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To: sheik yerbouty
That's what I thought too: if it were only about the Jews, the would not care today.
4 posted on 12/15/2002 6:10:09 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: Cicero
But Europe is so proudly "post-Christian" now, your argument would make them even more eager to abandon the tradition.
5 posted on 12/15/2002 6:11:52 PM PST by TopQuark
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To: Jacob Kell
Hmmm... wonder if Holland's "Liberals" will command its Muslim residents not to whip their wives for burning supper or stop their daughters' grooms' families from burning the girls alive if they disappoint the groom ...

Nah.

6 posted on 12/15/2002 6:33:44 PM PST by pabianice
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To: Cicero
Gosh, I guess they can't eat caneton rouennaise then, can they?

I love the "Joy of Cooking"'s comment on this recipe . . ."if duck strangling is likely to bring you into local disrepute . .. "

7 posted on 12/15/2002 6:38:17 PM PST by AnAmericanMother
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