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17
“Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki),” Jewish Virtual Library, 7 Oct. 2003
.
18
Rabbi A.M. Silberman, trans. Chumash With Targum Onkelos, Haphtaroth
and Rashi Commentary (Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers, 1934) 7.
19
Personal interview. For Rabbi Rami Shapiro’s extensive discussion of
vegetarianism, see his book Minyan (1997), 145-155.
20
Shlomo Riskin, “A Sabbath Week—Shabbat Ekev,” The Jewish Week, 14
Aug. 1987: 20.
21
The ammonia and other pollutants in the air are produced by the animals’
own excrement and urine.
22
Erik Marcus, “Slaughter of the Innocents,” Salon, 9 Jan. 1998
.
23
D.L. Roeber et al., “National Market Cow and Bull Beef Quality Audit—
1999: A Survey of Producer-Releated Defects in Market Cows and Bulls,”
Journal of Animal Science, 79 (2001): 658-665.
24
“Defending Against Mastitis: Saving the Dairy Industry $2 Billion a Year,”
factsheet, The National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research.
25
Frederic J. Frommer, “Dairy Groups Spent Generously on Lobbying,
Contributions in Winning Farm Bill Battles,” Associated Press, 9 Jun. 2002.
26
Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (U.S.: Decapo Press, 1995) 74.
27
Neal D. Barnard, M.D., “Women and Cancer: Opportunities for
Prevention,” factsheet, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2
Nov. 1999.
28
Numerous peer-review studies have documented this relationship. See, for
example, the American Dietetic Association’s position paper on vegetarian
diets. For more information and further references to peer-review articles,
visit the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Web site at
www.pcrm.org.
29
“Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada:
Vegetarian Diets.” Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 103 (2003) 6.
30
Milton R. Mills, M.D., “The Comparative Anatomy of Eating,” 11 Jan.
2004 .
31
Not all these spreads are healthful, so check the labels, and be sure to avoid
hydrogenated oils.
32
John Robbins, The Food Revolution (Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, 2001)
47.
33
Recommendation for further reading: Yosef Ben Shlomo Hakohen and
Richard Schwarz, “An Ounce of Prevention: The Jewish Approach to
Maintaining Health,” Emunah Magazine, Fall 1995: 44-46.
34
Richard Schwartz, Judaism and Vegetarianism (New York: Lantern Books,
2001) 42-43 (as cited from Yalkut Lekach Tov, Smot, B’shalach).
35
Rosen 54.
36
Ed Ayres, “Will We Still Eat Meat? Maybe Not, if We Wake Up to What
the Mass Production of Animal Flesh Is Doing to Our Health—and the
Planet’s,” Time, 8 Nov. 1999: 106.
37
Bill McKibben, “Taking the Pulse of the Planet,” Audubon, Nov. 1999:
104.
38
John Robbins, The Food Revolution (Berkeley, Calif.: Conari Press, 2001)
284.
39
A.B. Durning and H.B. Brough, Taking Stock: Animal Farming and the
Environment (Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1991) 17.
40
Durning and Brough.
41
Sierra Club, “Clean Water and Factory Farms: Keep Animal Waste out of
Our Waters, Stop Factory Farm Pollution,” 13 Aug. 2002
.
42
Sierra Club, “The RapSheet on Animal Factories: Convictions, Fines,
Pollution Violations, and Regulatory Records on Animal Factories.”
43
Durning and Brough, 27.
44
The Rabbinical Assembly, “Nishmat,” Siddur Sim Shalom (The Rabbinical
Assembly: 1997) 335.
45
The Rabbinical Assembly 85.
46
Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
(New York: Noonday, 1955) 74.
47
Adapted from Midrash Rabbah 33:1. H. Freedman and Maurice Simon
(translators), The Midrash Rabbah (London, Jerusalem, New York: The
Socino Press, 1977) 259.
48
Jacob Milgrom, Leviticus 1:16 (New York: Doubleday, 1991) 442.
49
Milgrom 713.
50
Personal interview with Rabbi Abraham Kook.
51
Personal interview with Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb.
52
Arthur Green, Seek My Face, Speak My Name (Northvale, N.J.; London:
Jason Aronson, 1992) 87-89.
53
Personal interview with Rabbi Dobb.
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