We need an anti-human-composting toolkit as well. I have submitted oral and written testimony against two human composting bills in my home state of Connecticut, and got sharp pushback from an assimilated Jewish legislator who supports this “option”: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ENVdata/Tmy/2023HB-06485-R000130-Mendelsohn,%20Stephen-Opposes-TMY.PDF https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/PHdata/Tmy/2023HB-05246-R000201-Mendelsohn,%20Stephen-Opposes-TMY.PDF Already there are Jewish funeral homes composting Jews into soil and fertilizer in states where it is legal, such as Feldman Mortuary in Denver (https://feldmanmortuary.com/cremation), and presumably others in Washington and Oregon (and soon New York and California). This human composting process threatens to introduce “human compost” into our food supply, which raises additional issues regarding the kashrut of produce.… Read more »
We need an anti-human-composting toolkit as well. I have submitted oral and written testimony against two human composting bills in my home state of Connecticut, and got sharp pushback from an assimilated Jewish legislator who supports this “option”: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ENVdata/Tmy/2023HB-06485-R000130-Mendelsohn,%20Stephen-Opposes-TMY.PDF https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/PHdata/Tmy/2023HB-05246-R000201-Mendelsohn,%20Stephen-Opposes-TMY.PDF Already there are Jewish funeral homes composting Jews into soil and fertilizer in states where it is legal, such as Feldman Mortuary in Denver (https://feldmanmortuary.com/cremation), and presumably others in Washington and Oregon (and soon New York and California). This human composting process threatens to introduce “human compost” into our food supply, which raises additional issues regarding the kashrut of produce.… Read more »