The Jewish community of Calgary, Canada’s ninth largest city, has beaten off a local attempt to prevent Jewish ritual slaughter of cattle.
Calgary dailies recently carried statements attributed to the chairman of the city’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals threatening legal action to prevent the inhuman killing of cattle by Kosher rites. ” Local communal leaders, including Rabbi D. Sarenholtz, and regional organization personalities issued statements pointing out that Jewish ritual slaughter was considered the most humane form of killing by authorities in this country, the United States and European lands.
Subsequently, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals published a large advertisement in the local press denying that it was contemplating action against any slaughter houses and repudiating statements to that effect issued in its name. Calgary Jewish leaders believe that the attacks on shechita have ceased.
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