The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1891-11-13
HEALTHY HEBREWS.
Facts Concerning their Methods of
Butcherinq.

A Cincinnati reporter has been inter
viewing some of the Hebrew slaughter.
houses of that city, and this is some OF
the talk he extracted: Said one pro.
prietor: "We hang all our cattle up by
the hind legs and then cut the throat.
The Hebrews prefer this to the hor.
rible butchering done by the average
butcher. We object to causing unneces.
sary pain. AS rule our people buy OF
their own butchers The habit, how.
ever, is growing less and less, and now
it is only the very religious people who
adhere to this rule.
Immigrants are the same way.
keep one butcher who kills for no one
but the Russian Hebrews. These peo-
pie are very conscientious in this mat
ter, and will eat nothing from my
shop but what is killed by this man,
Pork is eaten by plenty of our people,
Of course, the laws that gov.
ern us in such things were made
by Moses for health purposes alone.
That was a good while ago. Nearly
everybody eats pork now-many simply
because they do not respect their relig-
ion. l know of one instance that hap
pened only few days ago of young
Hebrew who took home some quaila
that he had bought in market, but his
wife would not cook them because
they had been shot. One reason
Hebrews are so healthy is that they pay
attention to sanitary laws, and their
health is the first consideration. They
are good eaters and drinkers, though
and believe in enjoying life"
Glow do methods of butchering in
this country differ from those of Eu-
rope?"
mot at all. The difference is in the
cattle. Over forty per cent. of European
meat is diseased. ! have followed
butchering in Germany, and have been
in this country for thirty years, and L
can honestly say that not two per cent.
of American cattle are diseased. In
Europe the stock are kept in tight
stables in order to fatten them quickly.
They do not know what it is to get pure
air and fresh grass. Butchers there
employ men who initiate the lungs OF all
cattle killed, and if the skin is not air.
tight the meat is condemned and sold as
condemned meat. Other persons buy it,
but not the Hebrews. In the United
States this method of examining the
lungs was kept up for many years, but
is seldom done now The livestock in
spector is sufficient guard for our cat
tie. In our establishment, where we
Kill hundreds of cattle every day, we
have found only three in the last five
months that have been condemned.
Why, in Germany l have known cows
to be killed and sold for eating pur-
poses after they had failed to drop their
calves. The people who buy this meat
know it, too, but they are too careless
TO mind it.
81 have never known of Hebrew to
die of consumption. Our children are
taught to be very careful and to guard
against cold by over-exercising and by
drinking cold water or any such over
indulgences."
Said prominent Hebrew: "For me to
say that am healthy because l do not
eat pork would be ridiculous, / have
never eaten pork, not because of relig-
ious scruples, but because of sanitary
reasons. consider the hog horrid an
mal and my own sense revolts against
eating its flesh. However, when Moses
made the law against eating the flesh of
swine he did it as a sanitary measure,
and not as a religious one There are
plenty of Hebrews to-day who eat pork,
and are perfectly healthy, despite that
fact. Trichine are found in the meat
of the hog, as are likewise the bacilli
tuberculosis. Why, then, should we
persist in eating that which, to say the
least, is dangerous? If the bacilli are
transmitted in the blood, it is suicide to
put them into our own bodies. AS a
precautionary measure alone it is well
not to eat pork. Orthodox Hebrews,
however, abstain from eating pork from
purely religious motives. The Hebrews,
as a rule, have persisted in their regard
for the dietary laws, and the result is
an increased vitality, which is growing
greater every day"