"Bobo Bonobo®" <CLASSACT@BRICK.NET> wrote in message
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> On Aug 24, 11:59 pm, azaze...@koroviev.de (Victor Sack) wrote:
>> pamjd <guppy21...@aol.com> wrote:
>> > Why is only the front half of the cow used?
>>
>> Because the back half contains the sciatic nerve which the Kashrut laws
>> forbid to eat. It is certainly possible to remove it, together with the
>> adjacent tissues and blood vessels - and some kosher
>> butchers/slaughteres do it - but this requires additional work and time,
>> as well as a waste of some meat, so many other kosher slaughteres just
>> prefer not to deal with the added bother and costs and sell the back
>> halves to non-kosher butchers.
>
> And they do not eat it because of Genesis 32:
> 32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which
> shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because
> he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.
>>
>> Victor
>
> --Bryan
>

Yep. There's a health reason if I ever saw one.
{smirk}