(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Schechita does not involve cruelty to animals, the Government of the Austrian Tyrol has declared to the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The society has applied to the Government demanding that it take proceedings against the Jewish ritual slaughterers in the Bregenz district, on a charge of cruelty to animals. The Bregenz district in the Tyrol is within the Austrian Federal Republic but close to Switzerland, where the Schechita is prohibited.
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