New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection has recently proposed new regulations that would require restaurants and bakeries using coal or wood to prepare their food would need to install emission filters to reduce their smoke output by 75%.
“This is the religious tradition for all these years,” said Alter Eckstein, pointing out that gas stoves cannot reach the heat needed for the process. “It’s also about the religion. This is how we bake for the past thousands of years, and we don’t want to change anything.”
Eckstein, 36, manages Satmar Broadway Matzah Bakery and had spent more than $600,000 in anticipation of the regulations, along with appeasing his neighbors who had sometimes complained about pollution caused by the business.
City Councilman Ari Kagan, who represents District 47 in Brooklyn, N.Y., pledged to defend the bakeries, asking “Why are we going after them? It’s completely opposite to what we should be doing.”
“I am totally against it,” he said. “It is wrong.” JNS
Im not familiar with these emissions issue but one thing is certain if the liberals are behind it and are advocating for it is probably not a good idea. Liberals care only about themselves. Truly a “Lev Arul”. From banning gas stoves, plastic bags, making it harder and harder to drive a car in NYC, Bail reform and many other issues they push for, all in the name of saving the world from ourselves. They couldn’t care less if it will cause hardship for consumers or cause businesses to go bankrupt as long as its done their way, and some lizard in a lake is saved.
I’ll give a very good example how these liberals get blinded by their own agenda. I ‘m following the BQE project where part of the BQE in NYC has to be rebuilt. If you read some of the blogs and articles of community advocates and politicians you can see they have an agenda – to make it so difficult to drive a car there that people won’t want to drive. We won’t discuss that this is the only major highway that starts back in NJ and goes through Brooklyn all the up to the Bronx. It is also the only highway commercial plates can drive on in this area. These liberal advocates are complaining right now that because the BQE in some parts is only 2 lanes its causing traffic to spill over onto the side streets Yet when the city came up with a design for a new 3 lane highway they nixed it because it would be easier for cars to drive there and we should be encouraging people to take busses and trains. (This last line is a direct quote.) But aren’t they complaining about the spill over traffic when there are two lanes? To liberal nothing has to make sense as long as their silly ideas are adopted.
Republicans also only care about themselves. However, the far left also actively seeks to destroy religion. That’s the difference.
Do you want to choke on polluted air, chas vesholom? NYC is having multiple poor air quality days lately, and not just from the Canadian wildfires, also from pollution from motor vehicles. Clean air is for everyone’s good, for your health. Poor air is a health hazard, a sakanah.
Wake up before more people get sick and affected in a worse matter, ch”v.
I don’t know all the details re the bakery ovens issue, but in general, we should be strongly in favor of steps to reduce traffic and pollution.
Didn’t Chasidic Williamsburg make a big ruckus years ago fighting a planned incinerator at the Brooklyn Navy Yard due to very real and legitimate fears of dangerous air pollution in their area? Do you think that was a mistake, and they should have welcomed it with open arms??
If you are against dangerous pollution, you should be consistently against it.
Just be responsible and do what I did. Get fully vaccinated and you’ll live forever regardless of any silly pollution problem. You rodfim only bring the tzaros upon yourselves.
Of course, we are vehemently against pollution & poisons being around us. But these new laws limiting & even completely forbidding wood & coal burning have nothing to do with stopping pollution & poisons. For wood & coal are not poisonous substances at all. If there was any real concern about pollution & poisons, there would be bans on the myriads of real poisons that are all around us almost all the time. But there are no bans enacted on these gravely harmful substances, and they thus continue to be heavily used in our daily lives.
Probably of THE very worst of these real poisons are the Modern Synthetic Pesticides. For nearly a century, our modern world has been heavily enveloped in a thick cloud of these chemicals. It is a regular part of our almost daily lives to use inside our houses and outside in our gardens “RAID” or “BLACK FLAG” brand or other brands of bug sprays and weed killers. When these are “not enough,” we call “TERMINEX” or “ORTHO” or other “professional” exterminators, who come and spray even stronger chemicals. “Out on the farms,” our growing foods are literally drenched with numerous different agricultural pesticides; when we eat those foods, we are also ingesting significant residues of these additional substances.
These insecticides & other pesticides are exceedingly deadly poisons. The horrid “Zyklon-B Gas” that killed many millions of us, Hashem Yinakem Damam — and many millions more non-Jews too, Hashem Yinakem Damam — in the Churban Europa, WAS A TYPE OF INSECTICIDE!! They kill insects by destroying the insect’s neurology system. As a human being is infinitely larger than a tiny insect, the relatively small amount of insecticide that destroys an insect’s neurology is not enough to destroy a human’s neurology. But while that “small” amount of insecticide is not enough to completely destroy a human’s whole neurology, it still is enough to HARM a human’s neurology, and thus cause his thinking to be warped and his emotions to be warped and his whole physiology to be warped.
IT IS THUS OBVIOUS THAT THE HORRENDOUS PROLIFERATION OF THESE PESTICIDES IS ONE OF THE KEY CAUSES OF THE GIGANTIC RISE OF CANCER AND MENTAL ILLNESSES AND EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS AND, YES, EVEN TOEIVA DESIRES AND TOEIVA ACTIONS!!
And the demented robotic democrat idol worshipping voters don’t care. Lemmings falling off the cliff en masse.
Liberals are the descendants of Chelm
Great. So what will a simple pound (6 matzos) cost the consumer next year?
Here is another case where the wicked attitudes & policies & laws that are enacted by the extreme Woke Left directly affects us and gravely hinders our ability to properly perform the Mitzvos of Hashem.