highly principled invertebrate<p>As I continue to listen to videos that read & translate the most comprehensive guide to being a Shochet (Kosher animal slaughterer) what occurs to me is that, at least at this point in that set, that most of these books discuss this as if it's a given that all or at least most people will do this professionally & that all Jews considering this live close enough to a rabbinical school to have mentors to teach this &give written credentials for it.</p><p>It isn't to say that what I'm planning on doing is "forbidden" rather that much of this literature is simply irrelevant, as if I ever get another <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Jew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jew</span></a> who keeps <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Kosher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kosher</span></a> as a visitor or I visit them with meat/poultry, I would get/have meat/poultry from a professional Shochet. As it is, I'm studying this & planning on raising & slaughtering my own meat birds because of the practicalities of having more chickens/turkeys on my property vs ordering large quantities of kosher poultry delivered or driving 340miles to possibly not even find poultry in said nearest & easiest to get to store with Kosher poultry.</p><p>*I'm still going to order Kosher beef & but hotdogs in regional stores but that's likewise an issue of practicality combined with religious observance, with the nearest places I can buy kosher hotdogs being 40-45 miles</p>