The plans by a group of Jewish investors to revive
production at the Chai Kosher Poultry Ltd. plant in Toronto are still in
process.
Neither the Chicken Farmers of Ontario marketing board nor
Sargent Farms has yet approved their parts of the deal.
Sargent bought Chai’s supply-plant quota, effectively ending
slaughter at the plant and leaving the Jewish community and others who prefer
kosher chicken without an Ontario supplier.
Prices rose because the only remaining source of supply for
the Toronto-area market and Southwestern Ontario is a Montreal processor.
Chai was started by the owner of Perl’s Kosher Foods and a
couple of partners in 1986 and was bought by the current owners in 1988.
Perl’s is leading the investors who have a proposal to rent
the plant and bring it back into business.
