You're right that Jewish women have often been the ones pressing for justice when it comes to kosher meat. In the 20th century (1902, 1907, and 1917, among other times), Jewish women led several kosher meat boycotts when prices skyrocketed. They understood that they had power as consumers and they used it to shame butchers and people who continued to buy from them at high prices (whom they -- politicized by the labor movement, no doubt -- referred to as "scabs"). The protests often turned into riots, with women flinging meat into the streets, throwing it at people, and getting arrested.
You can read more about the 1935 meat boycott (not kosher specific, but led by Jewish activist Clara Lemlich Shavelson here.
You're right that Jewish women have often been the ones pressing for justice when it comes to kosher meat. In the 20th century (1902, 1907, and 1917, among other times), Jewish women led several kosher meat boycotts when prices skyrocketed. They understood that they had power as consumers and they used it to shame butchers and people who continued to buy from them at high prices (whom they -- politicized by the labor movement, no doubt -- referred to as "scabs"). The protests often turned into riots, with women flinging meat into the streets, throwing it at people, and getting arrested.
You can read more about the 1935 meat boycott (not kosher specific, but led by Jewish activist Clara Lemlich Shavelson here.