To The Editor:
"Are the Anti-Shechita Agitators in the UK Really Concerned
with Animal Welfare?" (26 Cheshvan) reminded one of how there
is a middoh keneged middoh factor in the Mad Cow and
Foot and Mouth diseases that have ravaged UK herds.
The UK has been in the forefront of militating against
shechitah. The UK would probably have followed
Switzerland in banning it, if not for the fear of raising the
ire of its millions of Halal-eating Muslims!
As Winston Churchill said: "There is a great truth in the
saying that the L-rd treats nations as those nations treat
the Jews."
Interestingly, the Shulchan Aruch refers to the
kashrus of a "mad cow" that tries to kill itself by
running into a fire, ruling that because it has gone so much
against the normal nature of such a beheimoh, it is
treif!
It seems to me that there is a very great evil motivating
those obsessively trying to ban shechitah, which is
the most merciful form of dispatching ruminants. Neurological
studies have conclusively shown that the animal feels no pain
from the cut of the ultra-sharp chalaf, and the blood
pressure in the Circle of Willis at the base of its brain
falls to zero within two seconds: it loses consciousness
immediately and its sensorium feels absolutely nothing! How
unlike the other slaughtering methods of the nations.
May the world soon realize soon the Divine Wisdom of
shechitah: "You will slaughter of your herds and your
flocks which Hashem has given you, as I have commanded you"
(Devorim 12).
Yours Truly,
Amnon Goldberg
Tzefas
