An attack on the “cruel” Jewish and Moslem method of ritual slaughter was made last night in the House of Lords by Lord Dowding, formerly a marshal in the R.A.F. “It is a pity,” he said, referring to the Jewish and Moslem methods of slaughter, “we should he hampered in the process of setting our own house in order by the religious ceremonial of the stranger that is within our sates.”
Charging that “many more beasts are killed by the cruel Jewish methods than ?re required by Jews,” Lord Dowding urged that slaughter “by knife be prohibited and that laws applying to non-kosher slaughter houses be extended to Jewish abattoirs. ## Huntington, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, said that ?f such a law were approved, the meat supply of a large section of the population would be cut off at a time when other food supplies were extremely short.
Elsley Zeitlyn, of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, pointed out that ?ore than 400 eminent scientists, none of them Jewish, had described Jewish ritual laughter as a most humane method. “The method of slaying is by severing the animal’s regular vein with one continuous movement of a knife” that is sharper than a surgeon’s scalpel, causing almost instantaneous unconsciousness, he said.
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