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Article: Israel's Chief Rabbinate, Orthodox Union Refute Charges Against Agriprocessors.
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- December 10, 2004
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NEW YORK, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and the Orthodox Union in the US, the world's largest kosher certifying agency, issued strong statements yesterday clarifying statements attributed to them in the media as being critical of Agriprocessors, the object of an attack by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Rabbi Ezra Harari Raful, Director of Overseas Schechita and Meat Imports for Israel's Chief Rabbinate, in a statement denied that he said that an animal after schechita is not dead for 30 seconds. "I never said that, the truth is exactly the opposite. I said and stressed that after some 2-3 seconds following ...