Tuesday, January 5, 2010

ESDC gave $1.62M in taxpayer money to shady kosher slaughterhouse

From the Huffington Post:

I won't get into the details of the conditions at New Square Meats; if you're reading this, odds are you likely have a sense of what they might have involved. One of the basic, primary laws of Kashrut implies cleanliness: there is no eating of bottom-feeders, no partaking of animals that chew their cud and don't have cloven hoofs, no noshing on beasts that wallow in mud baths. Animals under the laws of Kashrut also may not be slaughtered if they are unconscious; among the supposed health benefits of this practice (like it or hate it) is the elimination of potentially sick and/or infectious animals from getting into the food supply. Theoretically.

So how could New Square Meats, which is itself affiliated with the Skver Hasidim--a sect that has repeatedly run afoul of the law--so obviously flout not only the religious dietary laws that they are supposed to be adhering to, but government regulations as well?

First, take religion completely out of the equation (since they've already blown a big fat Bronx cheer in the face of kashrut).

The answer?
Logrolling.

New Square Meats recently received a $1.62 million grant from New York's Empire State Development Corporation to help subsidize the cost of building a new, larger slaughterhouse near the one that has just been shut down; they received the money without obtaining the approvals from local town and county planning departments:

As the Forward reported recently, the slaughterhouse, New Square Meats, was already under fire for its attempt to build a bigger plant, five times the size of its current one, close to New Square's border with the town of New Hempstead. The proposed 26,250 square foot slaughterhouse would cost $3 million. Some local officials were particularly upset by the fact that New Square Meats had received a $1.62 million grant from New York's Empire State Development Corporation to help subsidize the new building without getting approval first from the county- or town-planning departments.

What is clear is that where New Square is concerned, the government--at least at the state level--has simply looked the other way for almost an entire decade; the New Square slaughterhouse that was just shut down had been selling uninspected birds since 2002.


Another public authority. Another horrible waste of taxpayer money.

WE NEED THE FEDS!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

NYS EDC is starting to make some big mistakes and getting themselves on people's radar.

Not a good thing for them. They should be flying below the radar.

BTW, headed by former Queens official.

Surprise, eh?

Anonymous said...

Oy vey!

Anonymous said...

As expected from city and all its media outlets owned and run by the Jewish.
Jew's always side with other Jews no matter how wrong or corrupt.

Note how it took the Huffngton Post to break this story.

Gary the Agnostic said...

Anonymous said...
As expected from city and all its media outlets owned and run by the Jewish.
Jew's always side with other Jews no matter how wrong or corrupt.

Note how it took the Huffngton Post to break this story.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010
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Rupert Murdoch is Jewish? Who owns more media outlets around here than him?

Your hatred is blinding you to the real world, you jerk.

Anonymous said...

Awful story. But why is it Queens Crap?

Babs said...

I don't like that you made the children's faces public.

Queens Crapper said...

It's Queens Crap because your state tax money is paying for it.

Anonymous said...

is not New Square N.Y. the town that voted unanimously for H.R.Clinton for U.S.Senate? after four rabbi's, who stole millions of U.S.education dollars from the local school system,were pardoned by her husband,president "Bubba" Clinton.

Anonymous said...

They will get away with it because of the big Israeli lobby in congress and if any of these many orthodox who do time for corruption on many levels as reported in the Daily News or NY Post they will get off easy. There was a ring busted not long ago reported in the NY times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/world/middleeast/04israel.html