Anti-Chicken-Kaporos Activists Relaunch Legal Attack
Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos activists rescue chickens in Brooklyn, NY in 2019.
Spectrum News NY1 Coverage, July 17, 2020
NEW YORK CITY — Anti-Kapporos crusaders are relaunching a legal attack against the Orthodox Jewish ritual — which involves slitting throats of tens of thousands of live chickens in the streets of New York City — arguing the novel coronavirus pandemic presents new evidence it’s harmful to human health.
“This is a real danger now that needs to be recognized,” attorney Nora Marino said. “It’s not about what could happen, it’s about what has happened.”
Marino, who represents the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos (the name has multiple accepted spellings) filed this month a motion to renew her case — struck down in 2018 by the New York Court of Appeals — and compel the NYPD to enforce Health Department codes she says are routinely broken during the pre-Yom Kippur atonement ritual.
Read the entire article here:
Orthodox Jewish Chicken-Killing Ritual Raises Coronavirus Concerns In NYC
Background
In early July, 2020, attorney Nora Constance Marino announced that “In light of the Covid-19 virus, and the consensus that it arose from a zoonotic cause, many people have been questioning how the city can possibly allow Kaporos to take place this year. On that premise, I have moved to ‘renew’ my prior motion from 2015, and have asked the lower court to reconsider its decision of 2015, in light of ‘new evidence’ -- the new evidence being the emergence and occurrence of Covid-19. I also had air samples taken from various Kaporos locations in 2019, which indicated dangerous pathogens in the air, and included that as ‘new evidence’ as well. There are additional items of new evidence, also included in my arguments.”
Read Nora’s new Motion and the accompanying Toxicology report here:
We will keep you updated on this exciting Motion and related activities this fall by the Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos and our allies.
Thank You for Your Support!
The Alliance to End Chickens as Kaporos is a project of United Poultry Concerns. Formed in New York City in June 2010, the Alliance is an association of groups and individuals who seek to replace the use of chickens in Kaporos ceremonies with money or other non-animal symbols of atonement. The Alliance does not oppose Kaporos per se, only the cruel and unnecessary use of chickens in the ceremony.
View this article online
