The Scandal Behind the Scandal

So, there was this aweful incident in Monsey, NY where a butcher within a Kosher food mart was selling truly non kosher meat to the general community. People found out, and the chick really hit the fan because the whole darn community was eating traif for the past few weeks (or more, because maybe this wasn't a one time deal).
The owner of the general Kosher food mart had a simcha of some sort, and was talking to his brother who works for satmar chicken shchita. The brother inquired as to where the chickens at the event came from, and the kosher mart brother told him that they were satmar chickens from his very own store. And that's when the brother said, "hey, Moishe, dude, we stopped shipping chickens to the other dude whos is the butcher in your Kosher mart...So somethin's fishy." They confronted the butcher dude who admited buying the birds from a truck driver on the blackmarket (um...ew? illigal animal carcass market? thereis like, a market for that?...Like, "hey dude, I have 10,000 dead animals in the back of this truck, honest, their good...wanna make a few bucks and risk it?"..and if that isn't shady enough to make you wanna hurl your bubbe's chicken soup accross the succah, that's your business).

So the Rabbis of every segment of the community are meating (haha) to discuss what to do now that an entire city has traifed up their kitchens at once.

I feel terrible about this whole deal, what a terrible mess. Aside from the criminalality of the whole deal-the lies, deceit, and greediness, the guy just ruined his family's lives for 19 cents a pound birds and a quick profit.

the Meta analysis of this case is a question I have been wondering about for years. In this mass produced agri business food delivery shrinked wrapped nation, we have turned a straightforward deal like Kashrus into a truly gray area of observance. We are so far removed from food production that we have come to accept all kinds of Kashrus related compromises without even blinking. This Monsey incident is enough to make you tear up and gag, or at least put down the drum-stick and stare dumbstruck at the Mizrach sign for a minute, but as as the status quo goes, no one is wasting brainpower on what probably happens pretty frequently: People eating animals that aren't truly healthy, are freaked out before shchita, fed all sorts of crap, live in crap conditions but as longs as its NIMBY and hasn't been for the past century, no one blinks twice. The ethics should make anyone who truly wants to keep kashrus become a vegitarian. The only alternative is raise cows in your backyand.