Applying Jewish values to our diets

As president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, I I believe respectfully that this article shows that the Jewish communiiy is generally ignoring that the production and consumption of meat and other animal products violate basic Jewish mandates to preserve human health, treat animals with compassion,  protect the environment, conserve natural resources and help hungry people and that animal -based diets and agriculture are causing an epidemic of diseases in the Jewish and other communities, and contributing significantly to climate change and other environmental problems that threaten all of humanity. I believe it is essential that the Jewish community address these issues to help shift our imperiled planet to a sustainable path.

For further information about Jewish teachings on vegetarianism, please see my over 140 articles and 25 podcasts and book “Judaism and Vegetarianism” at JewishVeg.com/schwartz and please see our acclaimed documentary “A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal the World” at ASacedDuty.com.

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sorry

My comment above applies to the article about Jewish delis.

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Kvas - a Russian fermented bread drink

As a Russian (Jew) I would like to help the readers on the-all-important subject of kvas spelled “kvass”.The best way to learn about kvass in San Francisco is to -

A:  try it—>visit any Russian deli in the City, on Geary and get the bottled fermented Russian bread drink there (New World on Geary or Europa Express 2 on La Playa, etc..)

B: And/or read in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass  Says there: “..means “acid” in the 16th century [Slavic], sometimes called a bread drink in English, is a fermented beverage made from black or regular rye bread”.

It has been my experience in the USSR, Russia, Latvia and this country that kvass remains such.

The worst possible way to learn about “kvass” is

C: to read about it in the “J”:

What Mr. Sandor Katz is alleged to describe is not even remotely close to kvass. Then again, maybe, just maybe the “J” made a mistake presenting kvass as “..beverage of lettuce fermented in salt, sugar, dill and garlic..” - who would drink such, even in savage Eastern Europe!

D: or learn about kvass at a “..food conference in England(!) when two women presented papers on it…” 

BTW, kvass has taken significant market share from Coke and Pepsi in Russia and other republics of the former USSR, and both companies now distribute kvass from their drink dispensers.

You can even get it in Israel.

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