[from Jewish Journal of greater L.A]

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the best-selling novel, "Everything Is
Illuminated" (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and last year's "Extremely Loud
and Incredibly Close" (Houghton Mifflin) released a video earlier this
month in which he argues that the slaughtering practices employed by
modern factory farms are out of step with the spirit of the kosher
laws. The film ultimately calls upon viewers to consider
vegetarianism.

The video, which features interviews with noted Rabbis David Wolpe and
Irving "Yitz" Greenberg, was written by Foer and produced under the
auspices of the animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA). Both a 25-minute version of the film and an
abbreviated version have been posted at the PETA-sponsored Web site,
www.HumaneKosher.com.

Titled, "If this is Kosher...," the video is likely to re-ignite the
debate begun at the end of 2004, when PETA released a stomach-turning
video clandestinely shot at AgriProcessors, the world's largest glatt
kosher slaughterhouse, in Postville, Iowa. The undercover video, which
recorded seemingly conscious cows limping and stumbling across a
blood-soaked slaughterhouse floor, often more than a minute after
their throats had been slit, sparked an investigation by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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