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<DIV>I just found this old post to Areivim (from January) in my old
email -- if it has already been extensively discussed, I missed it
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<DIV>In a message dated 1/26/2012, Saul.Z.Newman@kp.org writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><BR><A
title=http://www.mpaths.com/2012/01/why-is-my-cow-treif.html
href="http://www.mpaths.com/2012/01/why-is-my-cow-treif.html"><FONT color=blue
size=3><U>http://www.mpaths.com/2012/01/why-is-my-cow-treif.html</U></FONT></A><FONT
size=3> </FONT><FONT face=sans-serif><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial>nice pics
of treif anatomy</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>"Some farmers are giving their cows feed combinations that may cause bloat,
and cows apparently aren’t good at burping and can explode. A solution to this
is a rumen injector or trocar puncture tool. These are tools that punch anywhere
from small to fist sized holes into one of the cow’s stomachs – a procedure that
automatically renders the cow not kosher."</DIV>
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<DIV>I am going to ask a childishly simple question. Doesn't treif mean the
animal has a condition that will soon cause its death? If the farmer does a
procedure that creates a hole in the cow's stomach -- but he does it to PREVENT
the cow's death -- why does it make the cow treif? Does everyone agree that this
procedure renders the cow treif, or are there poskim who consider the cow
kosher?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 color=#0000ff face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><B><BR>--Toby Katz<BR>=============</B><BR>Romney -- good values,
good family, good
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