SC - Kosher Plants Hygienic, HAH!

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Damn. Another cherished belief shot down in flames. I'm going to have to
buy a farm and raise my own, I guess.

    Sieggy


> Excuse me, but now you're in my territory. . .
>
> As a U.S.D.A. inspector working at a kosher plant, I can firmly tell you
> this is a lot of bull. The Rabbis are not looking for either cleanliness
or
> disease in animals; what they are looking at is the intestines and organs
to
> see if, after slaughter, the animal still measures up to being considered
> Kosher. While the obvious things such as abscesses rule out kosher ,
others
> such as malignant lymphoma (which is a instant condemnable situation)
> are not _even_ looked for by the rabbis. In addition, Kosher plants have
> government waivers on certain areas. For example, on the poultry slaughter
> floor, birds are cold-picked instead of scalded because the rabbis insist
> that no heat is applied while the animal is on the kill floor. This is why
> the Kosher plants have exemptions for feathers left on the birds until
they
> reach some parts of processing (and at our plant, sometimes, not even
then).
> As to kosher plants being more hygienic than non, YOU HAVE GOT TO BE
> KIDDING! Both the pork plant in Waterloo, IA (when I did my pork
inspection
> training) and the turkey plant across the tracks are infinity more
hygienic
> than the post I'm currently posted at.
> (I would be rolling on the floor, laughing at this if it wasn't such a
> serious subject)
>
> Lady Beatrix of Tanet
> (Inspector Newton, FSIS)