Shechita – the Jewish religious humane method of animal slaughter for food
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New scientific study shows near-instant collapse of brain blood flow during Shechita
Publication: American Journal of Veterinary Research Year: 2025 Overview This new peer-reviewed study uses advanced computer modelling to examine what happens to blood flow in the bovine brain immediately after the carotid arteries are severed during Shechita. Claims...
Major scientific review confirms rapid loss of consciousness in cattle following Shechita
Publication: American Journal of Veterinary Research Year: 2025 Overview This major peer-reviewed study examines the full body of scientific evidence on loss of consciousness in cattle following non-stun slaughter, including Shechita. It finds that when Shechita is...
Landmark Peer-Reviewed Paper in Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (April 2025)
With great appreciation and admiration to Shechita UK's colleagues in Canada, a new peer-reviewed paper by Dr Simon W Rabkin has recently been published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, entitled: The cardiovascular effects of shechita in...
Battle of the Pens
Chanoch Kesselman presents a demonstration of the Farm Animal Welfare Council’s (FAWC) u-turn in their scientific judgement of restraining press for animals at the time of shechita. The full work can be seen here.
Discrimination of the most direct kind
An open letter to Struan Stephenson MEP Struan Stephenson is a Conservative MEP for Scotland and a member of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee of the European Parliament Read Shechita UK's letter to him here
