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Sacred cows, holy wars : verities and vagaries in deciding what's kosher and what's not / Kenneth Lasson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lasson, Kenneth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Dietary laws.
- Jews.
- Kosher food industry--United States.
- Kosher food industry.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- I. Forbidden food. The biblical, traditional, and historical backdrop
- Biblical injunctions
- From community regulation to big business
- Governmental intervention and involvement
- II. Sacred cows. The limits of law in regulating religious rules
- Bans on shechitah
- The problem with statutory regulation
- Kashrus and the courts
- III. Holy wars. Perceptions, politics, and filthy lucre
- Something ain't kosher here
- Kosher certification agencies
- Law and politics in the cut-throat business of kashrus
- Kosher meat scandals in America and beyond
- Oddities and excesses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611636994
- 161163699X
- OCLC:
- 961457681
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