America and UK initiatives encourage ‘ethical eating’ (Jewish Chronicle feature on Limmud Conference)

In the photograph on the screen, Rabbi Marc Soloway, the British-born leader of a Conservative synagogue in Boulder, Colorado, is cradling a young goat in his arms – writes Simon Rocker for the Jewish Chronicle Members of his congregation have set up Beit Izim, an urban goat co-operative, where volunteers take it in turns to milk the flock or feed the chickens in return for a bottle of milk or some fresh eggs. At Eden Village, a Jewish summer camp in the Hudson Valley, they grow most of their vegetables or source them locally. “Other than cereal and ketchup, they basically don’t buy any processed foods,” said Sarah Chandler of the Jewish Initiative for Animals. Click here for the full story on the Jewish Chronicle website.