Why is only the front half of the cow used?

"pamjd" > wrote in message
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> Why is only the front half of the cow used?
>
The back half, near the rump, is not considered kosher.

Do a Goggle search for kosher dietary laws and you will find them
interesting. Cleanliness is most important. You will also find that if you
buy a kosher turkey there will be no gizzards in the bird. Same reason.

Edwin Pawlowski wrote:

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> "pamjd" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
> >
> The back half, near the rump, is not considered kosher.
>
> Do a Goggle search for kosher dietary laws and you will find them
> interesting. Cleanliness is most important. You will also find that
> if you buy a kosher turkey there will be no gizzards in the bird.
> Same reason.

On an episode of "Take Home Chef", Chef Curtis picked up a nice Jewish
girl at the store. As her family kept Kosher, they had to go to Kosher
butcher. There, he found out his plan for leg of lamb wasn't going to
work.



Brian

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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
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> "pamjd" > wrote in message
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> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
> >
> The back half, near the rump, is not considered kosher.

No, it could be made kosher, but it generally isn't
because the labor cost would be too high.

Kosher requires dissecting out the major blood vessels,
which is easy to do on forequarters but much more
difficult on hindquarters.

pamjd > wrote:

> Why is only the front half of the cow used?

Because the back half contains the sciatic nerve which the Kashrut laws
forbid to eat. It is certainly possible to remove it, together with the
adjacent tissues and blood vessels - and some kosher
butchers/slaughteres do it - but this requires additional work and time,
as well as a waste of some meat, so many other kosher slaughteres just
prefer not to deal with the added bother and costs and sell the back
halves to non-kosher butchers.

Victor

"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>>
>> "pamjd" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
>> >
>> The back half, near the rump, is not considered kosher.
>
> No, it could be made kosher, but it generally isn't
> because the labor cost would be too high.

But it is still NOT kosher and not used for that reason.

3. Because the sciatic nerve and certain parts of the fat must be removed in
order to eat the meat of the hindquarters (this is a laborious job and takes
special training), filet mignon, rump and sirloin steaks, leg of lamb, and
London broil usually are not available in kosher form in North America,
though they may be in other parts of the world.



Meat That Is Not Allowed:
Any animal which does not both chew its cud and have a split hoof, such as
rabbit or hare, pig, horse, dog or cat.

On Aug 24, 11:59 pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:
> pamjd > wrote:
> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
>
> Because the back half contains the sciatic nerve which the Kashrut laws
> forbid to eat. It is certainly possible to remove it, together with the
> adjacent tissues and blood vessels - and some kosher
> butchers/slaughteres do it - but this requires additional work and time,
> as well as a waste of some meat, so many other kosher slaughteres just
> prefer not to deal with the added bother and costs and sell the back
> halves to non-kosher butchers.

And they do not eat it because of Genesis 32:
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because
he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
>
> Victor

--Bryan

"Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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> On Aug 24, 11:59 pm, (Victor Sack) wrote:
>> pamjd > wrote:
>> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
>>
>> Because the back half contains the sciatic nerve which the Kashrut laws
>> forbid to eat. It is certainly possible to remove it, together with the
>> adjacent tissues and blood vessels - and some kosher
>> butchers/slaughteres do it - but this requires additional work and time,
>> as well as a waste of some meat, so many other kosher slaughteres just
>> prefer not to deal with the added bother and costs and sell the back
>> halves to non-kosher butchers.
>
> And they do not eat it because of Genesis 32:
> 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
> shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because
> he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
>>
>> Victor
>
> --Bryan
>

Yep. There's a health reason if I ever saw one.
{smirk}

On 2007-08-25, JoeSpareBedroom > wrote:
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> Yep. There's a health reason if I ever saw one.
> {smirk}

It explains why I've never seen a Chosen People Barbecue.

nb

> Meat That Is Not Allowed:
> Any animal which does not both chew its cud
> and have a split hoof, such as rabbit or hare,
> pig, horse, dog or cat...

Yeah, I know. My father is Jewish. As children
we always fealt deprived not being able to eat
cats like the neighbor kids. Life just isn't fair.

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On 2007-08-27, Robert L Bass > wrote:
>
> Yeah, I know. My father is Jewish. As children
> we always fealt deprived not being able to eat
> cats like the neighbor kids. Life just isn't fair.

No doubt why you don't run across a lot of Chinese or Korean Jews.

nb