A Senate bill to require humane slaughtering of animals specifically exempts shochets engaged in preparing meat for persons of the Jewish faith, a staff assistant of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota said today, correcting erroneous impressions that Sen. Humphrey might be attempting to interfere with kosher slaughtering through the humane slaughter bill he introduced recently. The Senator’s intention, it was stressed, was to completely exempt all kosher slaughtering. The bill is now before the Senate Agriculture Committee.
The Humane Society, which urged Sen. Humphrey to prepare the legislation, has absolutely no objection to the Jewish method of slaughtering, it was said, because the society feels the present method is humane. Therefore, the bill includes specific wording which states: “The requirements of this section shall not apply to any individual who is duly authorized by an ordained rabbi of the Jewish religious faith to serve as a shochet while such individual is engaged in the slaughtering of livestock or poultry in accordance with the practice of such religious faith.”
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