The General Assembly Agriculture Committee has appointed a subcommitte to rewrite the humane slaughter bills now pending in the State Legislature. Representatives of lay and rabbinic organizations, testifying at a hearing on the bills, had declared that, while they still opposed any such legislation, they would not fight an acceptable bill.
The Jewish representatives filed with the committee a list of safeguards to be written into the humane slaughter legislation. The Jewish leaders said that the safeguards would protect the shechita process which, they felt, was threatened by the legislation as originally submitted.
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