Cruelty to animals!
ABC Television (Australia) -- For the past week, a custom that may seem strange to outsiders is being performed by Jewish people around the world. The tradition in its more strict form involves swinging a live chicken around the head - "a symbolic way of cleansing oneself of sin". For hundreds of years the ritual has marked the most holy ten days of the Jewish calendar, but this year there have been demonstrations against what some regard as a cruel and barbaric act... /To say the least!/ [The chicken is] picked up by her feet and swung above somebody's head, and then her throat is slashed, but not all the way, so she can run in the dust and the blood is pouring, and pouring till she dies. +++
P.S. If this piece of 'tradition' makes you vomit, you should see what goes on in the kosher slaughterhouse!
P.S. If this piece of 'tradition' makes you vomit, you should see what goes on in the kosher slaughterhouse!
