Efforts by the Canadian Jewish Congress to assure the free practice of shechita in Canada have been brought to a successful conclusion following the approval today by two of the top rabbinic authorities in the United States of a new method of handling animals prior to shechita.
Rabbi Joseph B, Soloveitchik of Boston and Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati, Ohio, gave their full approval to a new method of restraining animals for slaughter which was developed by the Canada Packers of Toronto to comply with new regulations on humane slaughter which come into effect on December 1, 1960.
The new handling process utilizes a restraining pen into which cattle is directed from a chute and in which the animal is confined on both sides while standing on its feet. The new restraining process received the official approval of the Department of Agriculture as complying with the new regulations.
The method also received the approval of the general manager of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals who expressed confidence that the Society and the provincial animal welfare movement would readily accept the process as “fully complying with the requirements of humane slaughter. “
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