We sell a wide range of organic healthy and natural kosher products. The company’s goals are to have the Jewish community eat better food, reduce factory farming and tikkun olam.

 

Why organic? 

 

It’s simple – no dangerous pesticides, no dangerous antibiotics, no growth hormones, genuine free range conditions, no genetic engineering, no overcrowding of animals. The animals live happily, live naturally and die well. Organic farms allow many other species to flourish and frequently use rare varieties of flora and fauna reducing the risk of epidemics and famine, via biodiversity.

 

For example, conventional chickens endure considerable overcrowding, eat food laced with antibiotics and pesticides and almost never see the light of day from the day they are born, till the day they die.

 

What kosher means?

• No electrocution of the animals is permitted before slaughter, 
• Great care is taken to ensure that all animals lose consciousness immediately after slaughter, by dint of a razor sharp blade, or they are deemed non-kosher. 
• Every animal is checked rigorously post-slaughter, 
• All meat is soaked and salted to eliminate as much blood as possible. 
• Please check with your local Beth Din for further details 

PS If you have Muslim friends who prefer organic food, please tell them about this, as the meat we supply will be licensed as Halal by the Halal Food Authority.

 

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A geopolitical note from Leon Pein, founder of Organic Kosher Foods

 

You may have heard of the parable - A butterfly flaps its wings and a tsunami occurs across the world, to illustrate how international air, sea and land travel has made the world a much ‘smaller’ place in the last 50 years and how intertwined our lives have become with others across the world.

 

I am but a small cog in the wheel, I can’t do anything on my own.  

 

It’s a common refrain, considering the power of transnational companies whose annual sales exceed the production of many African and Asian countries.  

 

So, how powerful do you think you are? Well, consider this: how would you like to help stop piracy off the coast of Somalia AND tuck into some great tasting food at the same time? 

 

It sounds like a perfect scheme designed for Jewish consumers. 

 

Here’s how: Eat an Organic Kosher chicken*

 

Here’s why: Factory trawlers ‘hoover’ the seas for fish off the coast of Africa. The fish that Western palates do not want is sold as fish meal, which is high in protein. 

 

Agricultural feed companies have a commercial imperative to buy the cheapest protein available.

 

Chickens need lots of protein to help them grow fast**. Their diet is about as divorced from nature as it is possible to be, and so some will be fed fish. 

 

Traditional tribal fishing grounds have been denuded of stocks. In desperation, perhaps, some people have turned to piracy to feed their families. (Now, some of the piracy that makes the headlines appears to be for greed, since the potential winnings have become so large).

 

The US and other navies now spend £millions, frequently unsuccessfully, on protecting shipping lanes.

 

When you eat a conventional kosher chicken, you may be inadvertently contributing to this vicious circle of events. 

 

I hope I have not put you off your dinner!

 

In good health

 

Leon Pein

 

PS If you have researched this topic and have identified inaccuracies in the above, please feel free to email me leon@organickosher.co.uk

 

* The red meat abattoir, the poultry abattoir and the meat cutting and packing plant are expected to be inspected by an Organic licensing body in November 2010.  We expect to start supplying certified Organic Kosher meat and poultry by the end of 2010.

 

**Conventional chickens reach full weight at half the age of organic ones.  Imagine a 9 year old human having the body weight of a fully-grown 18 year old). 

 

Modern chickens have been bred to maximise breast size. Some campaigners claim that chickens on factory farms often keel over because they are top-heavy, or collapse, because their legs cannot take the weight, and the only reason many are still standing, when they are loaded into crates for slaughter, is because they are crushed so tightly together that they can barely move.