[Avodah] Is any meat today kosher?

[Simon Montagu via Avodah]

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-any-meat-today-kosher/

Rabbi David Rosen served as the senior rabbi of the largest Orthodox Jewish
congregation in South Africa, and as Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He is
currently the American Jewish Committees International Director of
Interreligious Affairs, based in Jerusalem.

>From the article:

When I served on the Cape Beth Din in South Africa, I had to join my
colleagues in visiting the slaughterhouses and checking up on the shochtim.
The kosher slaughterhouse in Cape Town was part of a general slaughterhouse
complex enabling me to view the process of killing animals in both places.
What I saw convinced me that while non-kosher slaughter was quicker and
more “aesthetic” than kosher slaughter, it failed in its claim to be more
compassionate in its methods.

...

Kashrut involves more than just the way the animal‘s throat is cut and the
checking of its vital organs. Kashrut involves the whole relationship
between humans and the animal world. Indeed our sages say specifically in
relation to shechitah that “the mitzvot were only given in order to refine
people” (Genesis Rabbah, 34; Leviticus Rabbah, 13.)

If at point Z the animal’s throat was cut the right way and its internal
organs checked, but from A to Y all injunctions and prohibitions have been
ignored and desecrated, how can that product really be called kosher?

Why is there virtually no official rabbinic dissent let alone opposition to
such practices?

See the linked URL for more
http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/is-any-meat-today-kosher/
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