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Show MAX COWAN AUGUST 18, 1972 a bit unu s ual for a Jew to engage in that type of busine ss here? MC: No. The Jewish p e ople i n Eastern Eur ope and i n Germany and in parts of France, were always in the c attle business, for centuries and centuries. The reason they were associated with it is they were butchers. Because they ate kosher meat. They had to have butchers. They always sold the rear parts and ate the front part, quarters, see. So automatically they had to buy cattle to slaughter them. Then they would keep the front parts for the kosher and the hind parts they would sell to the Gentile trade. So by selling the meat they got into the meat business. Here in the United States the Jews really cut a big swath in the meat business. Tremendous. Not only in the retail markets of chain stores, so on and so forth. A lot of Jewish people have chains in the East, like the Giant Food stores and the Food Fair and a lot of those stores that are in the meat business. Also the purveyors who purvey the meat to the restaurants, institutions, and hospitals. I would say that like on the East Coast, the bulk of that, the great bulk of that business, is in Jewish hands. It is a Jewish business, the meat business . So being in the meat business, they are affiliated with the livestock, see. In this country, the Uni ted 5 |
