American Council for Judaism Joins Fight on Kosher Slaughter Method
NEW YORK—A doctored film
and a representative from the
American Council for Judaism
were helping the cause against
kosher slaughter of animals at a
public meeting-turned free-for-all
Sunday.
Speakers endorsing the Smith-
Wilson humane slaughter bill con-
demned the kosher "shackling and
hoisting" process of slaughter, and
to back up their case showed a
gruesome film that purported to
illustrate the kosher slaughtering
method.
Sponsor of the public meeting
was Friends of Animals, Inc., in
hopes of mustering support for
the legislation. One of the speak-
ers was William Gottlieb of the
American Council for Judaism,
who suggested "some strange link"
between Orthodox Jews and the
meat-packers who oppose legisla-
tion to outlaw shackling and hoist-
ing. He said Orthodox Jews who
read anti-Semitism into the legis-
lation are "raising a red herring."
Cheers and foot stomping
greeted the endorsers of the law,
including an actress who "de-
scribed" in detail the kosher
method—as she conceived it:
fully conscious cattle hung by
one leg before their throats are
slit. She attacked the Orthodox
Jews who defend what s h e
called "such barbarism" in the
name of religion.
(In reality, the k•Isher shackling
and hoisting proce4., requires that
the animal's hind legs be shackled
and both front legs hoisted before
being slaughtered. By Jewish law,
the knife must be so sharp that it
can split a hair, and the animal's
jugular vein must be severed in
one stroke so it will feel no pain.
(Until the shackling and hoisting
method was adopted by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, ani-
mals were cast on the floor of
slaughterhouses and their throats
slit. The Agriculture Department
ruled that the practice was un-
sanitary and adopted the other
method . )
Author Fannie Hurst told the
gathering, "There is no longer
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any need for kosher kill . . . It
no longer has profound mean-
ing."
After the speakers had their
say, others from the floor were
invited to ask questions.
Bronx Assemblyman Seymour
Posner said he opposed the new
legislation because it "interferes
with religious practice," but his
voice was drowned out by Catcalls.
The assemblyman hammered the
lectern and shouted: "What is this
mad obsession? Why just cows?
What about hunting? Why are you
so interested in legislating religi-
ous affairs?"
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—The Long Island
Commission of Rabbis, an orthodox
group, has filed a $1,000,000
libel suit against the Friends of
Animals, Inc., the New York Times
and 58 individuals whose names
were listed in an advertisement
that appeared in the Times on
March 1, protesting what it called
the "obviously cruel procedure"
of "shackling and hoisting" consci-
ous animals prior to kosher slaugh-
ter.
The rabbinical group contends
in the suit that the advertisement
which was sponsored by the
Friends of Animals and the 58 in-
dividuals maliciously characterized
) the organization's views on pro-
posed legislation governing kosher
slaughter as being motivated by
economic rather than religious
motives. They charged that the
advertisement libeled them by say-
ing that they were "paid to super-
vise kosher catering establishments
and butcher shops."
The commission declares in the
suit that none of the rabbis in
the organization was paid for his
dietary supervision. It charged
that the advertisement said that
the organization opposed on re-
ligious grounds pending legislation
that would control the killing of
animals and noted that the group
"did actually affirm" one of the
bills.
Israeli Publicity Costs
Israelis spent a total of 55,000,000
pounds ($18,300,000) on publicity
and advertising in 1965, represent-
ing a 25 percent increase over the
total for the previous year. The
increase was largely attributed to
the election campaign.
ways, and at one point Posner
called Gottlieb "an Arab lover."
(The American Council for Ju-
daism is notorious for its anti-
Zionist stand.)
Attorney Phillip Solomon said
the bill was being opposed for
economic reasons. "As a Jew," he
said, "I see no religious conflict.
What this basically boils down to
is dollars."
The Wilson-Smith bill would not
outlaw shackling and hoisting, but
it would provide that all kosher
meat slaughtered under the shack-
ling and hoisting method be so
labeled.
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