Rabbi finds vegetarianism to be a religious ideal

Rabbi Yossi Feintuch looked for biblical passages to support his decision to be a vegetarian

July 18, 2008

“When you read about the abuse of animals in our own industrial meat production, then you cannot say that God’s idea about compassion for animals is achieved,” he says.

Feintuch blames the nature of modern-day factory farming. “When a shepherd slaughters his sheep, he has some personal sentiments for her, and he will do his best to make sure that she suffers the least, but that is not a value in the meat factory,” Feintuch says. “Judaism cannot be a part of that, as I see it.”(...)

Feintuch considers himself to be a vegetarian with a vegan ideology: no meat, limited eggs and limited dairy.....

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