The Jewish World was recently thrown into a tizzy by the enactment of anti-shechita laws in New Zealand, which will severely restrict Jewish Life there. The governmental rationale is that they're protecting animals. New Zealand isn't the only country which forbids kosher slaughter of animals. Switzerland has forbidden it for decades. I may be just a dumb granny, but if the Swiss really cared about animals, hunting would be forbidden. It isn't. Hunting is permitted in Switzerland.
It's considered a sport in those countries.
Something stinks, like rotten meat...
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Did you know the New Zealand Prime Minister is Jewish ?
Technically, Anonymous, technically.
"Will the real John Key step forward". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 23 August 2007. if you're asking me if I'm religious it depends how you define religion. I look at religion as doing the right thing....I go to church a lot with the kids, but I wouldn't describe it as something that I ... I'm not a heavy believer; my mother was Jewish which technically makes me Jewish. Yeah, I probably see it in a slightly more relaxed way.
He has stated that he does not believe in life after death, and that he sees religion as 'doing the right thing'. Key's wife, Bronagh (née Dougan) Key, is the daughter of Northern Irish immigrants of Catholic and Protestant confession.
Well said. You wonder what their ulterior motives might be.
I guess Jews there buy imported meat. Or, better yet, they're being forced to turn into vegetarians.
In my earlier post, linked to in this one, I mention that he's Jewish which I doubt helps. Uncooked/processed poultry can't be imported to New Zealand, so without shechita, no chickens for cooking.
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