(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
A resolution demanding the prohibition of Shechita in Germany was adopted at the Annual Conference of the German Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held at Darmstadt.
The resolution was submitted by the Societies in Duesseldorf, Hilchenbach, Luebeck and Munich. It demands that in all cases animals killed for food must be stunned before they are slaughtered. Dr. Einhauser of Munich said that it was essential that stunning should be made compulsory also in the case of animals slaughtered for Jews.
Pastor Hecker of Berlin said that the Society did not wish to interfere in matters concerning the members of another faith, but without interfering with ceremonial laws and customs they should place the matter on the higher level of their common humanity and above questions of religious particularism.
Rabbi Dr. Munk of Berlin said that to the Jews there was no difference between the two points of view. The laws of Schechita were deeply embodied in the Jewish faith. It was forbidden for the Jews to eat the meat of animals which had been injured by the use of a stunning apparatus.
Rabbi Dr. Horowitz of Frankfurt also declared that the Shechita Laws are religious commandments binding upon all Jews.
On the adoption of the resolution, the Executive instructed to take the necessary measures to make the stunning of animals of animals compulsory in Germany.
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