{"id":5143,"date":"2023-01-01T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/?p=5143"},"modified":"2024-09-29T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:30:10","slug":"is-this-kosher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/is-this-kosher\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This Kosher?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section class=\"normal_content bg-white padding-top-small padding-bottom-large\" style=\"\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"row center-md\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content-styled\"><p><em>This content was originally published by the Jewish Initiative for Animals (JIFA), a project of Farm Forward from 2016 through 2024. JIFA is now the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishfoodethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Jewish Food Ethics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>For centuries, the question of what\u2019s \u201cfit\u201d for Jewish communities has guided our daily actions and reflected our religious identities and moral values.<\/h2>\n<p>In a fraction of that time, industrial animal agriculture has transformed our food system and made intensive farming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jifanimals.org\/blog\/virtually-all-kosher-products-are-factory-farmed-heres-how-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the norm<\/a>\u00a0for 99% of animals\u2013even for animal products that certifiers label as kosher, or \u201cfit to eat.\u201d Jewish foods\u2013as diverse as the community itself\u2013are meant to help us celebrate holidays, mark important life events, nurture our bodies each day, and exemplify our values. Yet, many of the foods that embody Jewish comfort now come with uncomfortable truths.<\/p>\n<p>A new norm is attainable; all that\u2019s needed is our communal will to learn and take action. As a community, it\u2019s time to reckon with the impacts of our food choices\u2013on farmed animals, on people, and on the planet\u2013and ask:\u00a0<em>is this way of farming and eating truly\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>kosher?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Is This Kosher<\/em> explores modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/the-discomfort-of-chicken-soup\/\">chicken<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/somethings-fishy-about-lox\/\">fish<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/news\/dairy-is-udderly-suspect\/\">dairy<\/a> farming practices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-product-labeling","category-animal-welfare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farmforward.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}