Shechita – the Jewish religious humane method of animal slaughter for food
Resources
Dershowitz speaks in Norway
...The bottom line: Boycotts do not promote dialogue Click here to read the article First published in The Recorder, Columbus, Indiana 30 March 2011
Dutch on “a slippery slope” to populism, extremism and anti-Semitism
Dutch Consider Shechita Ban Eli Shaw BRUSSELS A LEADING shechita campaigner in the UK has expressed concern that proposals to ban religious slaughter in Holland could have a knock-on effect throughout Europe. A bill to ban shechita in The Netherlands is set to...
DialRel – a critical review of their published recommendations
Comments on the latest version of the DialRel Document “Main outcomes and recommendations to good animal welfare practices during religious slaughter” Submitted by Joe M. Regenstein, Professor of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-7201, USA. [This...
Analysis: by Henry Grunwald
I suppose Neville Chamberlain might have described New Zealand as "a small, far-away country" but New Zealand's new animal welfare code could have a major effect on this side of the world. The code requires animals slaughtered for commercial consumption to be stunned...
Label or Libel, asks Chanoch Kesselman
The recent European vote for all shechita meat not used by Jews to be labelled as produced “from unstunned slaughter” has been heralded by consumer groups, veterinary associations and animal welfare councils as a welcome move. As one prominent veterinarian put it, “We...
