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...lambs are wedged into a conveyer belt that carries them from the holding pen to the butcher. Some bleat insistently but most are quiet, bewildered. The machine stops for a moment and Mohammad Hussain, a Muslim cleric who sees to it that all slaughtering at Birmingham's Pak Mecca Meats abattoir is in keeping with religious law, strokes a lamb's head as he waits. The lamb's eyes close in contentment for a moment, until the conveyer whirs back into action. Hussain intones the Muslim blessing, and then with a single expert swipe nearly severs the animal's head...
...says, "part of it was motivated by anti-Semitism, that's for sure. We had threatening letters." The F.A.W.C. has a surprising ally in Reform rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, a professor of Judaism at the University of Wales. He argues that Jews can live perfectly religious lives without meat, as he has done for the past decade. There's no doubt, he says, that Shechita "was the most humane form of slaughter" when it developed over a millennium ago, but it is no longer in keeping with "high ethical principle." He knows that his stance will alienate many...
...favorite dad. His show has a bold spin (he plays a childless husband who takes in his sister's kids while she's in rehab), and the ratings are strong. My trouble with Bernie, though, is his kidside manner. "I'm gonna bust your head till the white meat shows!" he hollers in one episode; "I'm gonna kill one of them kids," he says in another. All in good fun? Perhaps. All too common...
...wanted to write about a business,” he says. “I settled on meat packing because it’s so difficult to dress it up and make it anything but what it is—it’s so raw. In this period was a great revolution in meat packing that works with the character that I imagine...
...self-described food fanatic, Helen K. Ahn ’03 says her high school in New Paris, Ohio was “literally surrounded by nothing but corn.” She remembers that her neighbors ate casseroles, meat and potatoes and that her mother had to drive an hour and a half to find Korean ingredients. It was not an auspicious beginning for a girl now in love with the creativity and variety that preparing food allows...