I finally watched the video. The 40 minute one. Let me tell you, I was afraid to watch the movie. I knew that nothing I would see would make me a vegetarian. I trust the rabbis at the OU who wrote this and this. I know some of them personally. But I thought that the video would make me rethink things.
With that in mind, I will tell you that the video was far LESS shocking than I thought it would be. I was told that the people were hacking live animals. I was envisioning some sort of Eiver Min HaChai. The video showed nothing of the sort. The most disturbing scene was the very first one. In it, the cow is released from the pen and starts to stand up, and staggers to the back, a few feet away. He then collpases. A few seconds later, the technician hoists it. In the foreground, you see another couple of cows shechted that stop moving instantly.
The pulling out of the trachea didn't disturb me at all. Call me callous, but I really fail to appreciate the need to be "kind" in the few seconds prior and following the slitting of a living being's throat! The animal doesn't like being upside down?! Well I imagine he likes being killed even less.
Posted by Yehupitz at December 12, 2004 07:41 PMCallous!
Posted by: Ploni at December 13, 2004 05:12 AM