Jewish ritual slaughter methods, as practiced by the Jewish community in Britain, providing instructions are followed out, furnish as humane a method as any for disposing of bovine animals except in the modern bovine pen, Richard Stokes, a Laborite, said in the House of Commons during a discussion of Schechita. He criticized, however, the method of getting animals into position for the humane killer.
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