PhD Vegetarian Judaism is a gold mine of information and ideas about Jewish history as a guide to modern dietary choices and values. Kalechofsky brings Jewish history and Talmudic and rabbinic commentary to life in this inquiry into the relationship between animals, humans, and diet. Kalechofsky argues and shows how kashrut can and must be updated. Whatever took place in the actual past, animal food production in the modern world is filthy, cruel, degrading, disease-producing, and environmentally destructive. Kalechofsky shows why there is no true choice between these two killing methodologies.
True choice lies elsewhere.
If you are concerned about the health care issues of diet, this book documents the interaction between harmful bacteria, antibiotics, and immune system breakdown in modern animal food production and consumption. If we incorporate this symbolism into our psyches, we do so with deception and should adjust the symbolism of chicken and egg to that of disease and death. Kalechofsky is a distinguished author and publisher of many books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and scholarly studies. Buy the book and see for yourself.