SOMETIMES RUDENESS IS JUSTIFIED: Why This Hasid Was Right To Flip the Bird to Kapparot Protester. The article contains fluffy-headed notions about chicken-farms (my farmer-fans assure me what they do is better than the alternative) and seems confused about why we “allow” food to go to waste (in Soviet America, food wastes you.  No, seriously.  Whom do you want to empower to stop food waste? There really are health regulations about giving half-eaten chickens to soup kitchens, and also, you think food isn’t wasted in soup kitchens too?) BUT on the point of the protesters and the reaction to them, it’s dead on.