Why do they torture animals to make it kosher?

Question

Why do they torture animals to make it kosher?

Answer 1

To the contrary:

Kosher laws promote the fair treatment of animals.

One of the Seven Noahide Laws forbids cruelty to animals.

Answer 2

They don't. Kosher law requires that the animal be killed with the least pain. To accomplish this, the knife is required to be sharp enough to slit the throat in a single stroke and up to a precise depth to help reduce it's sufferings. Kosher laws also require the slaughterer to pray to God to reduce the sufferings of the animal.

Halal (Islamic laws) and Kosher (Jewish laws) require the animal to be killed with the least pain.  

Answer 3

They, don't torture them, its very painless and conventional...

For some reason, i think you're just trying to stir the pot, and get people angry.

Also Driver T, not everything named in organized religion is good, I never said it was, most people don't care crusades, and are against Bosnia ethnic cleasing. And what has George W Bush done that was religious? But you seem to have a confusion of terms, the things you listed are using religion to make things right, kosher is making something right for a religion.

Answer 4

I answered you already after you posted this as an answer to my question.

Kosher slaughter is just as humane (if not more) than other slaughtering methods.

Stunning the animal can be more cruel than slaughtering and sometimes the animal needs to be shot up to 5 times, by slaughtering the animal it looses it's consciousness in a matter of seconds.

Regardless of that, Kosher is more of a health issue than anything else, slaughtering the animal has health benefits over stunning and other methods.

According to The Wall Street Journal Only 20% of people buying foods marked kosher are Jewish, and “kosher” has become the most popular claim on food products, according to a recent survey by Mintel, a Chicago-based market research firm, beating out “organic,” “no additives or preservatives,” and “all natural.”

Answer 5

There is no such rule.

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assumed that you asked the question innocently.

Answer 6

They don't torture!!!!!!!

The way the Jews slaughter animals is THE LEAST painful for the animal....

Answer 7

I don't think your information is accurate.  It is a good thing that you have asked.

Judaism has always respected the lives of animal -- from the time of giving of the Ten Commandments until the present.  

Since the destruction of the Temple, kosher meat comes from animals that have been ritually slaughtered by a trained slaughterer, using a method thought to ensure the least possible pain to the animal, and then inspected for deformities. (Thus, hunted animals are never kosher—kosher venison is farm-raised and ritually slaughtered). This rule doesn't apply to kosher fish or insects.

During those 3000 and more years, animals were slaughtered by non-Jews in the most inhumane ways -- by virtually every other people on the face of the earth. This inhumane slaughtering continues today in more places in the world than not.

In addition to lifting the animal up, a ritual slaughterer must move to the animal quickly, use a knife that is incredibly sharp and without even the slightest nick, and cut through the animal's trachea and esophagus in a single motion. All this is required in order to try to minimize the animal's suffering.

In sum, you can be assured that kosher slaughtering is the way that Jews minimize the pain and fear felt by animals being killed for food.

.

Answer 8

no one tortures any animals to make them kosher.

the animals are no more tortured then for halal consumption

Answer 9

Visit your local packing plant and see how they kill the steers.  Hogs too.  Not a pretty sight.

You are in America right?

Answer 10

If you do something, - anything, in the name of an organised religion, then it is not unlawful.

Consider George Dubya Bush, the medieval Crusades, the ethnic cleansing of Bosnia, the suicide bombers of the Arab world. Then again it works in reverse too, like what the Chinese do in Tibet, and the warlords of Dafur.

Answer 11

If meat should be kosher the animal has to suffer the least.

A knive would have to be as sharp as possible and the the cow per say should be slaid on a specific part of the neck in order to cause it the least pain possible.

Answer 12

Unless you think that gassing animals and cooking live lobster is more painless. Why won't you do a little research on how Kosher meat is prepared, you might change your mind.