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A specially formed Jewish coalition, Shechita UK, fought the recommendation by emphasizing scientific evidence that shechitah -- which involves cutting an animal's throat with a surgically sharp blade, leading to rapid loss of consciousness -- is a humane method of slaughter.
"It's been a real example of cooperation," said Shechita UK's campaign director, Shimon Cohen.The last serious challenge to kosher slaughter in Britain came in 1985, when the council recommended that the government "require that the Jewish and Muslim communities review their methods of slaughter so as to develop alternatives which permit effective stunning."See the full content of this document
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British Give Ok to Kosher Slaughter
LONDON -- Jewish groups welcomed the British government's decision last month to reject a recommendation to ban kosher slaughter as a victory for th...
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