My zeide’s fmily were butchers in the Tarnapol area. My mother a”h brought down stories of how, after shcechting an animal they Rav would darshen over every “moom” “trying to find a way to get the animal kosher” If only 305 of our cattle are kosher, imagine the terrific loss a treife would have been in the heim.

is the sriter aware of the severe poverty of the East Euroopean jews during th 1800-1950′s? Poor people can’t afford to buy meat or chicken– that is why hthere are so many stories of Yidden buying fish ( herring) for Shabbos.

Yes we are in golus, but we are not spoiled. not more than the goyim who can walk into any store and buy as much meat as they wish at prices 1/4 of what ours cost. This is not a siman that the Klal should accept a non-meat lifestyle. anymore than the Chubanwas. Afterall , before the Churban Yiden ate plenty of meat. Chazal in fact banned the restrictions of not eating meat afterthe churban.

Let’s not make this into something it isn’t. the US has anti-trust laws so that in no industry there is a monopoly. AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY– SO WHEN THE MONOPOLY ACTS ILLEGALLY AND CLOSES DOWN, THE CITIAENS ARE PROTECTED!

So who is at fault here? WE ARE. Everyone who stopped going to their local neighborhood butcher and started buying the “cheap” meat at the grocery store. Everyone who would go to a self-service butcher and chhose the cheaper Iowa chicken over the vinveland or Empire. AND EVERYONE WHO THINKS THAT “CHASSIDISHE SHECHITAH” IS BETTER THAT “REGULAR GLATT”. The reason the small shlacht hoisen went out of business is that WE stopped buying their products and WE are suffering because of it.

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I have already a very controversial solution; let’s go back to the good old days when people went and bought a live chicken, brought it to be slaughtered, and then came home and flicked the feathers and kashered them themselves in the basement using an old wooden washing board and a salt pail. I can still remember my mother going to the basement to do such a thing. But then again that was a few years ago….

Then for meat, buy whatever you want and then go home and kasher it yourself! My mother always kashered her own liver because my father was not satisfied with the job that the butcher did. And after I got married I did the same; covered the stove with two layers of extra heavy aluminum foil, made little slits with a special knife set aside for such purposes, salted the liver and broiled myself. I was working and yes it was extra work. Would it solve all of the kashrus problems? No. But, I do believe that it would contribute to improving the current situation we are in now.

It would also bring a zchus back to klal yisroel. Kashering was the specialty of the ba’alebusta. Not anymore. I watched the whole procedure once. It is so terrible to lift up the intestines of the chicken and look for the holes and any suspicious pimples or bumps.

Like I said, it is controversial. Something to think about.

THIS COULD HAVE ALL BEEN AVOIDED, learn the rules and play fairly. Gd created cattle, chicken, duck, turkey so that his children would have good nutritious food to eat.

However, this is a very serious subject and even with bodchim we should face up to the questions that current events must raise on anyone with yiras shamayim. There are several issues. Lashon Hara and business ethics are the more obvious ones, but there are others. We should each search our own pockets and check our own tzitzis before we start to search yenem’s.

Let us also not forget to daven that this year will be one of much rain in Eretz Yisrael and that the drought will end. Let us daven that Hashem will have rachamanus on all of Bnei Yisrael, whereever they are (spritually and geographically). Let us learn more. Let us do more chesed. Let us be mekarev rechokim.

Since when is having “no shortage” spoiled. Baruch Hashem yom yom, that we have more than we need. its as if its our fault that we have all that we need.

Should we starve ourselves or deprive ourselves so we don’t become “spoiled”?

To what end???

The only reason I can think of to understand this wide spread philosophy is that for so long in golus we were used to so much less than necessary, that we are “classically conditioned” to not relax and enjoy hashem’s brachah. But that we must always be on guard in case our fragile house comes tumbling down.

The question comes down to:
1. Should we enjoy good times, and worry about bad times when they come?

2. Should we always never relax, and always worry that the bad times are just around the corner?

Does your worrying really help anyway???

Trust in Hashem, he always provides.

yes you should save for rainy days, but don’t live life in fear on the verge of catastrophe. Enjoy Hashem’s brachos when we have them clearly, and build your emunah.