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Agriprocessors is a slaughterhouse and meat-packaging factory located in Postville, Iowa best known as a facility for the glatt kosher processing of cattle and poultry. It was founded by Aaron Rubashkin in 1987, who purchased a meat processing plant which had been closed for seven years. Rubashkin is regarded as an innovator in the kosher kill industry, bringing modern industrial methods to what has historically been a small, almost boutique craft[1]. Two-thirds of its output, however, is non-kosher and is marketed under the brand Iowa Best Beef[2]. Its kosher products are marketed under the brand names Aaron’s Best and Rubashkins. The current CEO is the founder's son Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin and another son, Heshy Rubashkin is also active in the organisation. Postville is a city located in Allamakee County, Iowa. ...
Rabbi Avraham Aaron Rubashkin is the founder of Agriprocessors a major kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa, and an ordained Rabbi for the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic group. ...
Rubashkin purchased a dilapidated meat packing facility in 1987, bringing new jobs and an influx of Hasidic famiies from New Yok. While relations between the local community are mostly good there have been tensions in the past, with a symbolic referendum held in the town to effectively close the plant. A Jewish professor at the University of Iowa, Stephen G. Bloom spent a few months living amongst the Hadidim in Postville, and wrote a book Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America which describe the conflicts. The University of Iowa, or Iowa for short, is a major national research university located on a 1,900-acre campus in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, on the Iowa River in East Central Iowa. ...
Animal abuse controversy
Agriprocessors was subjected to serious charges of using inhumane methods of slaughter, of being unsanitary, of maintaining an unsafe work environment and of mistreating its employees. All of this was propelled by a secret video[3] released by PETA, leading to further attention. PETA effectively picketed the Allamakee County Attorney to start an investigation[4]. Peta can refer to: Peta (prefix), a prefix meaning times 1015 in the International System of Units People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an animal-rights organization People Eating Tasty Animals, a parody of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Peta, Greece, a town in the prefecture...
Allamakee County is the northeastern-most county located in the state of Iowa. ...
Temple Grandin, recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the design of cattle containment and slaughter, is said to have been appalled at what she saw on the tape. Jewish commentators stated, based on what was seen on the tape, that the practices violated Jewish law, and thus the products' kosherness was suspect.[5]. After the initial controversy, however, audits by competent private firms as well as governmental agencies passed favorably on Agriprocessors practices. In particular, Temple Grandin toured the facility on June 27, 2006, and by Agriprocessors own statement, she is stated to have approved of everything she saw[6][7]. Temple Grandin, one of the more successful adults with autism. ...
Pollution Starting in 2004, city authorities started an investigation against Agriprocessors due to complaints from local residents that they routinely deposited untreated effluence into local rivers in breach of regulations. On August 31, 2006. Agriprocessors signed a consent decree[8] and paid a $600,000 fine for violating waste-water regulations.[9]
In a news release dated January 23, 2007, 2,700 pounds of frankfurters offered for sale in the Northeast was voluntarily recalled as having been under-processed[10].
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