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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1923-09-07

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PAGE SEVEN

TiftVernortfinsa64Romael

A Happy and Prosperous
New Year to All My
Jewish Friends

The Jewish Method Of
Slaughtering

By DR. ISRAEL FELDMAN,

Demonstrator of Physiology; London Hospital Medical College.

HEART OF THE JEW

By ANNA FRADA

Through sanguinary hate's relentless
heart,
Through inquisition's baleful art,
The Jew, on low or high behest
(From North, South, East or New
World West),
Through shadows grim or case of
sun
Till man with love for man lw won,
The Jew and Jew at heart are one.

Save Coal and Keep Warm

Start the New Year Right

Once again, after a period of quiesc.I ■ ibservation and experiment. It has
owe, the subject of the humans ' )•een estimated that after the cutting
neck in the ritual manner, con-
slaughter of animals for food has 1 of the
come into prominence here in Eng- I sciousness is completely lost within 0 tragicheart! Immortal is thy
quest—
land, and the various societies that 'three seconds, and in mentioning this
have been establsihed for the purpose hurt interval of time it must b e , F r: h xalt i cd, by Jehovah's crest
shalt hil.rir':nttrie d a II " n
of protecting dumb animals are mak- s
8 ,1n 1
ing every endeavor to influence the' emphasized that well within even this ' 1 kY,, light
sun;
"
authorities to revise the conditions short period the receptiveness of the Nor shall a world
of of war and rage,
under which the slaughtering of ani- higher brain to all sensitivity must Nor bigotry nor venom's gage
heritage.
E'er past thee from
main for food takes place. The sub-
destroyed. In addition to E'er
—American Hebrew.
jest very intimately and directly con- have bane
cerns us Jews, inasmuch as from time thus causing practically
ous loss of sensibility and of con. '
The learned man whose garment is
immemorial we have practiced the ,ciousnes, Shechita ensures that the
is undeserving of honor.—The
method of slaughtering known as ,
g y drained of soiled
holi. body is thorouh
mud.
a
method
that,
like
many
r'
Shechita--
t for apart from the immediate lal
other customs associated with the '
in this direction brought
daily routine of Jewish life, has been direct t by the severance of the large s
' b..1iu
most carefully and minutely de- a
'
%Thine.' in all its details by the teach- arterial and venous channels in the
neck, there is the subsequent very im-
NICKLE PLATING
ings of our rabbis.
portant contributory factor provided
METAL BUMPING
Injunction to Avoid Cruelty. by the violent spasmodic convulsive
LETTERING
FENDER
ENAMELING
Some of us who have been brought contractions of the muscles which
up in an intensive Jewish millieu are squeezed the blood out from all parts
apt too readily to take it for granted of the body, thus rendering the meat
that our fellow citizens share with more acceptable and delaying its
us that instinctive conviction that, be- putrefaction.
cause a practice is sanctioned or ad- .
It has been suggested that the act
vocated by the Jewish religion, it of cutting with the knife may pro-
must. of necessity, be humane. The duce pain. But this assertion is an-
reason for this is not far to seek. As sacred by the fact that the possibil-
Jews, our training has, from very ity is reduced to an absolute mini-
early childhood, imbued u s with a mum by the excessive keenness of
deep and conscientious feeling for the Shochet's knife and by the de-
OUR WORK IS AS SPARKLING AND BRILLIANT AS OUR NAME
the dumb creatures around us. The liberate and sudden manner of its
Bible and the Talmud constantly re- application. Even in the case of hu-
iterate our duty to avoid cruelty of man beings, with their much more
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are commanded to rest all cattle on nervous system, if they are afflicted
the Sabbath day. Ti avoid the work- by great and sudden injuries (as in
ing together of two animals of un- battle or accidents) they experience
equal strength and different tempera-. not so much a sensation of pain as
merits, Jews are not allowed to that of an indefinite ill-defined blow.
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in one harin , ss. .An ox must not be self, even in a conscious being, pain-
muzzled when treading the corn—
this in order that he might not be le " :
Training of Shoshetim.
resented from partaking of the food

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the practice of Shechita, although we men who have become imbued with
m instinctively assume that here, a very high sense of their responsi-
ay
bilities and duties, and constant offi-
aconsideration
humanitarian
also,
must have been uppermost in the dial supervision and periodic re-ex-

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minds of those who initially devised amination result in the maintenance
and perfected the Jewish method of of a very high standard of efficiency,
skill and conscientiousness.
slaughtering animals for food, never-
From the facts above enunciated,
theless, it behooves every Jew to sat-
isfy himself that this method, laid we may assert, with confidence, that
of Shechita, Jews are
down by our rabbis, can in face be . by the ,adoption

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which can
vouched for in the light of the knowl- , employing a met od w ish t
edgs gained by the most recent scien vouched for. on a strictly scientific
basis, as being humane, and at the
title physiological developments.
same time ensuring a well-nigh per-
commonplace
experience
for I feet means for a thorough draining
us It to is find
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the kid in its mother's milk." "Ye slaughtering animals must finally &-
shall not kill an animal and its young Pend upon the means that are devised
both in one day." We are forbidden and the organization is set up for its ,
to partake of a meal unless we have effective carrying out. 11'e must. ■
previously fed our animals. Hunting therefore, note that the official Sho-
a
o f animals for pleasure, or for so- chet or slaughterer has to undergo
called slant, is over and over con- rigorous and exhaustive trolling pre-
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, the blood from all parts of the
cases, our rabbis did not explain, at ' of
any rate in scientific language, the " o "y*
A New Casting Apparatus.
basis for the very many customs that
Jews,are exhorted to observe in their I Much emphasis has been laid, both
daily life, nevertheless, what appears now and in the past, upon the fact',
superficially to have been empirically that, previous to the actual cutting!
e nunciated is found on minute and by the Shochet, the neck of the ani-1
ca reful investigation to have scien- mal must be extended. The methods
title data for its support. We can, employed for this purpose in the case
without any hesitation or reserve, of the smaller animals have little
emphatically state thst Shechita deft- room fur honest criticism or controsl
nitely comes within this category. versy. In the case of larger animals,'
the method of "casting" is adopted.
Procedure in Shechita.
This has very frequently been criti-
The essence of Shechita consists in sized on the grounds that it some-
the following procedure that is car- times caused the animal pain or dis-
ried out by the Shochet, the official comfort, and the Jewish authorities
entrusted with the duty of slaughter- have always been anxious to improve
ing. With a super-sharp, smooth, the conditions and details of the cast- 1
ev en-edged knife a single continuous .ing process. I was recently present
cut is made horizontally across the at the Isslington Cattle Market when
neck of the animal. The cut must I a demonstration was given of a new I
be free and exposed, and no lacers- apparatusfor this purpose that hasp
tion of the tissues is permitted. As been devised by J. B. Hayhurst, M.
a result of this single lightning stroke R. C. V. S., the chief veterinary in-
all the structures in the neck down spector at the Metropolitan Cattle
to the spine are cut through. The Market, and lecturer at the Royal
essence of this procedure lies in the Veterinary College and the Royal I
fact that the great blood vessels pro- Army Veterinary College. The fa- I
ceeding directly from the heart to cility with which the casting of large'
the brain and vice versa, i. e., both bullocks was effected by this newt;
carotid arteries and both jugular method, and the exceedingly small !
veins, are instantaneously and freely degree of discomfort experienced by
cut across. The brain cannot funs- the animals in the process, added to
tion unless it receives a constant and its commendable simplicity, indicate
very rich supply of arterial blood that by the development of Mr. Hay-
from the heart, which, under normal hurst's designs we are well on the
conditions, acting as a central pump, . smut to obtaining a means for the
ensures this through the medium of preliminary casting of large animals,
the carotid arteries in the neck. Af- , which should prove most effective,'
ter passing through the brain, hay- easily worked, and painless.
ing given up oxygen and fudostuffs, I In the foregoing article I have en-
the blood returns as deoxygenated1deavored to present, in broad out-
blood back to the heart through the lline, the results of a large series of!
wide channels provided by the jugs'. scientific
scientific observations and experi-
lar veins, these likewise passing ments on the part of independent
through the neck. Of all the var iousl workers. I have refrained, on this
structures in the body, the most sin-, occasion, from quoting, in any detail, I
sitive to even minute changes in blood the many and varied data upon which
supply are the nerve cells. It is these conclusions are based. I have 1
well known that interference with these before me as I write, but I1
the blood supply of any grouping of trust that sufficient evidence has been'!
nerve cells, even for a very short brought forward, in as simple and di-
period, results in the permanent in- reef a manner as possible, to indicate
jury or death of those nerve cells. It that Jewish sentiment and Jewish
is also well known that by simple , practice for all creatures, which, in'
of ' the order of things, have been placed
both carotid arteries, loss of con- , within the power of man. In their
sciousness can be suddenly and con- , dealings with the lower animals, Jews
pletely produced. This Fact was rat' possess a clear conscience, and this is'
one time very frequently taken ad-1 ' fortified by the sincere conviction'
vantage of by ruffians who, by this' that in the practice of Shechita they',
method, known as "garotting," ren- are employing a method of slaughter-
dared their victims suddenly uncon- ing animals which is certain, rapid
-
scions and rubbed them. The device and painless.—The Jewish Chronicle,
is also employed among the Japanese Lo
ndo
London.
n.
I
for the purpose of self-defense. It,
is well known that, of all parts of ',
the central nerve system, the higher,
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brain, which is the seat of conscious-.
ness, is the most readily affected by1
the slightest variations in its blood-
supply. The result of cutting, at one lie always came to us on Friday night,.
stroke, with carotid arteries and both The thin old man who worked with
dreams and clay;
jugular veins, is an immediate cessa-
tion of the flow of blood to the brain, !Who wrought within his figures all '
the might,
and at the same time, a literal drain-
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The fancies and the hours of yes- .-
ing away, with great rapidity, of
terday.
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most of the blood that was present
in the brain just previous to the cut-
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ting. This must produce immediate Those nights the candles only seemed -
to glow
loss of sensibility and of conscious-
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ness. One of the immediate results
- ...
of fire
observed after the cut is the spas-
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burned—so slow
of the head of the animal. This is a
As though they could not ever end
sign, well authenticated and accepted,
!.,..E_
or tire.
that the brain has indeed become
anaemic, and that, as a corollary to
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this, a series of strong impulses is He talked to us of models he had
:It-
7
made
being sent down along the nerves ,
connected with the musculature of s But did not sell—none wanted •E--
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fairy queens,
the face, causing them thus violently
to contract. This is followed by And still he hoped, hoped some day
to be paid
similar convulsive spasm of the
Though men do not buy hazy fig-
muscles of all other parts of the body.
urines.
brought • about by anaemia and
asphyxia of the spinal cord. To the
lay untrained observer, these convul- But now he's dead, and so he lies
alone
sive movements might suggest a pur-
poseful struggling effort on the part Beneath a figure strangers carved
from stone,
that
this
is
an
of the animal. But
—Charlotte Gordon, in Ameri-
entirely unfounded conclusion is un-
can Hebrew.
equivocally proved by physiological

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