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1Chopped living!No. 194 autumn 2015 elul 5775They shall not hurt nor destroy on all my holy mountain (Isaiah)Thesince 1966make your own, p192In this issue, we feature prolific author and founder of Jews for Animals Rights, Roberta Kalechofsky, who is also a JVS patron. She writes about the failure of historic kashrut to respond to the many problems in todays meat i n du st r y.From her home country of America comes some very promising news: 400 million fewer animals were killed for food there last year, compared with 2007. Today, 16 million Americans now identify as vegetarian or vegan, 5 times as many as in 2009.Further afield, in Israel, the largest slaughterhouse in the country was shut down following media coverage, which revealed severe and repeated abuse of lambs, sheep and calves. On page 10, Yossi Wolfson, the JVS co-ordinator in Jerusalem explains exactly what has been going on inside these slaughterhouses, which export meat worldwide. In the last issue we celebrated Germanys...