A nationwide coordinated education drive designed to combat misinformation about “Shechitah,” the Jewish ritual method for the slaughter of food animals, was announced here this weekend by Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, president of the Synagogue Council of America. The education campaign is being launched to help clarify confusions about Shechitah arising in connection with current efforts to enact “humane slaughtering of livestock” legislation by Congress, Rabbi Adams said.
“Recent proposed legislation relating to humane slaughter of food animals have given a completely false impression of Jewish ritual slaughtering,” the Synagogue Council president stated. He declared that bills introduced into the House and Senate in recent years have left the “inescapable implication that slaughtering in accordance with the practices and requirements of the Jewish religious faith are inhumane, but are permitted only because they are prescribed by religion.” These implications, Rabbi Adams said, “are false and defamatory of the Jewish people and must be categorically rejected.
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