Kosher Plant Cited For Child Labor

American Voices

August 11, 2008 | ISSUE 44•33

Investigators uncovered 57 child labor violations at a kosher meatpacking facility in Iowa. What do you think?

Is 57 the number of child labor violations it takes to make something kosher?

Ken Smith
Systems Analyst
Man, having to slaughter animals by the kosher process of a single cut across the throat to a precise depth, severing both carotid arteries, both the jugular veins, the vagus nerves, the trachea and the esophagus, no higher than the epiglottis and no lower than where the cilia begin inside the trachea, thus causing the animal to bleed to death would probably really fuck you up as a kid.

Carol Williams
Quality Control Inspector
Nothing's going to happen, though. Everyone knows that Jews control the kosher-meatpacking-facility media.

Bix Blumenthal
Haberdasher

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