Examines how contemporary issues such as workers' rights, animal welfare, and environmental protection intersect with basic Jewish food ethics, and explores how Jewish communities both respect ancient laws and appreciate the importance of progress.

This volume of collected essays brings forth new paradigms in the exploration between the intersection of Judaism's concern with eating, dignity, food ethics, and animal welfare. Contained here are rabbinic reflections on the nature of Judaism's timeless concern with upholding the moral and spiritual integrity of kosher laws in theory and practice.

"The book is a feast of valuable insights, a very useful guide on how to make our diets more consistent with kashrut and Jewish values: holier, healthier, more compassionate, more environmentally sustainable, less wasteful of land, energy, water and other resources - and more just, by avoiding foods that involve the mistreatment of workers on farms and in slaughterhouses. ? At a time when typical Jewish diets, and those of most people, contribute substantially to an epidemic of life-threatening diseases in the Jewish and other communities, to climate change and other environmental threats to humanity, and to the widespread horrific treatment of farmed animals, this book provides much 'food for thought' and practical ideas that can help produce a healthier, more compassionate, just, peaceful and environmentally sustainable world."

-Richard H. Schwartz, The Jerusalem Post