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The Iowa secretary of agriculture, chief rabbinate in Israel, and the Orthodox Union weigh in on AgriProcessors. Read their reactions here.
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AgriProcessors workers ignore the suffering of cows who are still sensible to pain after having their throats slit by the ritual slaughterer. The animals stagger and slip in blood while their tracheas dangle from their necks.
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Key Documents
- PETA
Writes to AgriProcessors After Receiving a Whistleblower Complaint
About Its Postville Facility (June 18, 2003)
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Nathan Lewin, AgriProcessors' Attorney, Rebuffs PETA (August 26, 2003)
- PETA
Responds to AgriProcessors (November 3, 2003)
- PETA
Writes to the Orthodox Union Asking for an Official Endorsement of
Five Humane Slaughter Recommendations (November 29, 2004)
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PETA Writes to Abraham Rubashkin, President of AgriProcessors, Asking for Changes in Light of Our Investigation
(November 29, 2004)
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Second Letter to Abraham Rubashkin, President of AgriProcessors, Asking Again That Changes Be Made at Postville Facility
(December 6, 2004)
- Letter
to Rabbis Genack and Weinreb of the Orthodox Union Asking That They
Take Action to Stop Cruelty to Animals (December 6, 2004)
- Letter
to Rabbis Kohn and Edelstein of KAJ Regarding Cruelty at AgriProcessors
(December 10, 2004)
- Subsequent Phone Calls From PETA to AgriProcessors Were Not Returned
- Official
Statement of the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement
- Orthodox
Union Issues Statement in Response to PETA
- PETA
Issues Statement in Response to Orthodox Union
- Reply
to Nathan Lewin’s Article in The Jewish Week
- Response
to Rabbi Avi Shafran’s Article “The PETA Principle”
- Reply
to Rabbi Menachem Genack’s Article in Jewish Press
- Reply to Michael Rosen’s
Article in Front Page Magazine
- Reply to Menachem Lubinsky’s
Article in Jewish Press
- Fourth Amendment Complaint to William C. Smith of the USDA, Asking That AgriProcessors Be Held Accountable for Its Crimes
- FMI-NCCR Guidelines for Humane Slaughter, Recommended by Leading Experts
- PETA Addresses the Orthodox Union’s Failure to Disclose Audits of AgriProcessors
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