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Animal rights and veganism is a very important part of my life, and has been for over six years. Even before I became a vegetarian in high school, I had issues with eating meat (such as, I wouldn’t eat hunks of meat, it had to be ground up and in something else). When I took the dive into veganism the year after graduating from high school, I realized it was the best thing I’d ever done for myself and for the animals I love.
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Posted by Merideth Miller on January 6, 2009 at 1:54 pm
If you’re interested in animal rights activism, OUR DAILY BREAD is an indispensable tool. This compelling visual essay confronts the realities of mass food production in corporate agribusiness and the treatment of livestock.
You can find more info and get a copy here: http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/new2006/odb.shtml
“A most perturbing experience guaranteed to haunt you for meals to come.”—Kam Williams, UpstageMagazine.com
Posted by FreeMan on October 19, 2009 at 2:19 am
I’m not sure I am in the correct location to post this as I was responding to a posting in April about the practice of Shechita. You are welcome to move it if it is in the wrong location.
Information from a tract by an British writer, Arnold Leese, may be interesting to you.
Leese reported in the 1930s that, “I have often tried to get the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to get Shechita stopped, but in vain. At meetings of the Guildford Branch where I brought the matter up, I was treated by the Chairman as though I were a pickpocket. Here is a newspaper version of one of these occasions taken from the Surrey Times, 30th April, 1932: {citations in the link}.
Among the statements made therein:
“Dr. Klein, Director of the Abattoir at Lennep, Germany, made some simple experiments in the presence of nine veterinary surgeons; he performed these on several animals, which had had their throats cut by the Jewish method. The experiment simply consisted in cutting the ropes binding the animals’ legs immediately after the cut was made. The animals then rose to their feet, staggered about fully conscious, then sank to their knees and finally collapsed. Klein found that consciousness remained for at least forty seconds after the cut. He concluded that “the Jewish method must be forbidden in our civilised country” and when Hitler came to power, it was.”
“Gentiles eat most of the carcase of an animal killed by the Jewish method. Jewish ritual forbids Jews to consume the hind quarters of beasts killed for food unless those hindquarters have been subjected to a process called “porging.” This porging consists in the removal by dissection of certain blood vessels and fat, a dissection which requires some skill and which therefore is seldom resorted to. Thus, for practically every beast slaughtered by shechita, there is a whole hindquarters available for Gentile consumption.
“The obstructive tactics employed by Jews to prevent the abolition of this unnecessary suffering to our animals is due to the fact that the Jewish community gains large sums from fees received for the services of the Jewish slaughterer….”.
” The fees are used for the religious education of Jews and for other Jewish purposes. As the fees are included in the price of the meat to consumers, it follows that most of the shechita fees paid in this so-called Christian country are really paid by Gentiles who eat most of the meat.”
“That is why the number of animals slaughtered in this method so greatly exceeds the needs of the Jewish population.”
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“For many years, the method has by law been prohibited in Norway, Sweden, Finland and parts of Germany; now it is stopped everywhere under Nazi rule. Switzerland prohibits by a law which is honoured in the breach rather than in the observance.
The method has long been expressly condemned also by the Director of the Abattoir in Brussels.
Mr. F. Marshall, M.P., spoke in the House on the subject. “No terms of mine,” he said, “can describe the horror of the Jewish method of slaughter. It is the absolute acme of cruelty and pain.”
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The link for this article is:
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/cattle-slaughter.htm
Leese is branded for his outspokenness about Jews and his writings are condemned to the memory hole.