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	Shechita FAQs \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Shechita has been scientifically shown to be painless because the animal is rendered unconscious by this humane method.
		Shechita does stun, but other methods of stunning, for example by captive-bolt shot into the brain, or by electric shock, or by gas, cause injuries to an animal and delay the slaughter unnecessarily.
		Shechita stuns and dispatches in one action, and the manner in which it stuns is irreversible.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/919_shechita_faqs.htm (719 words)

	Shechita
		Shechita (Hebrew:שחיטה) is the ritual slaughter of animals, as prescribed for slaughter of mammals and birds according to Jewish dietary laws.
		Though referenced in the Torah, the vast majority of the basic practices of Shechita are found in the oral law, and have been codified in halakha in various sources, most notably the Shulchan Aruch.
		It is forbidden to have the animal in an upright position during shechita due to the prohibition of pressing.
	www.1bx.com /en/Shechita.htm (2189 words)

	OU Kosher \| Jewish Ritual Slaughter: A Three-Thousand Year Old Method That Respects Animal Suffering
		That is not to say that it was ignored n the past: shechita has been banned in Switzerland for many decades and was made illegal in Sweden as well, independently of the presence of Muslims in that country.
		Shechita is part of this general framework of respect.
		This is because shechita cuts the carotid artery but does not affect the other two arteries that take blood to the brain: the vertebral arteries.
	www.oukosher.org /index.php/articles/single_print/2711 (1861 words)

	Shechita report welcomed \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Shechita UK has welcomed the Government’s Final Response to the Farm Animal Welfare Council’s Report on the Welfare of Animals at Slaughter, in particular its strong commitment to respect the right of the Jewish community to continue shechita in the UK.
		Shechita UK has led the Jewish Community’s response to the controversial FAWC Report, published in June 2003, which recommended to Government to repeal the right of the Jewish Community to practise shechita, the Jewish religious humane method of animal slaughter for food.
		Shechita UK has been working for the past 18 months to protect shechita from the potential impact of FAWC’s inaccurate and biased report and the Government is to be commended for the consideration it has shown towards the Jewish Community following the publication of its draft response last year.”
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1405_shechita_report_welc.htm (307 words)

	What is Shechita? - About Shechita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Shechita is the Jewish religious and humane method of slaughtering permitted animals and poultry for food.
		The time hallowed practice of shechita, marked as it is by compassion and consideration for the welfare of the animal, has been a central pillar in the sustaining of Jewish life for millennia.
		Thus, shechita renders the animal insensible to pain, dispatches and exsanguinates in a swift action, and fulfils all the requirements of humaneness and compassion.
	www.chabad.org /article.asp?aid=222240 (396 words)

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		The organization of communal Shechita in London was first conceived by the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation soon after the Resettlement in 1663 as being essential for adherents of traditional Judaism.
		In 1953 the National Council of Shechita Boards was established, encompassing all UK shechita activities and joined in presenting a unified platform for the protection and defence of shechita.
		Nowadays it is a pro-active resource centre for the education of a wider public about the proper practice of humane slaughter, and is often consulted by Government departments and animal welfare organisations who are shown that Shechita is humane and is conducted by trained professionals to the best standards of practice.
	www.shechita.co.uk /history.htm (370 words)

	mentalblog.com: The second cut on the halachic aspects of shechita
		This prohibition shows that the animal is still alive, but le-tzorech adam, we can inflict this pain as a component of shechita (this is not to be confused with the prohibition to eat �ever min hachay� for gentiles, the �ever min hachay� is not longer applicable after shechita as Gezeras ha Kosuv).
		We assume that this logic of permissible TBC as an extension of shechita is the origin of what has been referred to as a �second cut,� or a cut to sever arteries to speed up bleeding and death.
		The reason the High Priest only initiated the shechita was because he also had an obligation to collect and sprinkle the blood, so he relied on others to complete the shechita while he proceeded with collecting the blood.
	www.mentalblog.com /2004/12/second-cut-on-halachic-aspects-of.html (1322 words)

	mentalblog.com: Analyzing Shechita at Rubashkins
		This would mean that his death is not confirmed and the killer does not have to escape to the Arey Miklat (towns of refuge).
		What it all illustrates is that death and Shechita are two separate events.
		And therefore it would not be unusual for a cow to stagger� But the incident in the video, where the cow walked away might be indicative of the arteries not being properly severed.
	www.mentalblog.com /2004/12/analyzing-shechita-at-rubashkins.html (392 words)

	Tuesday
		Shechita, the Ra'avad argues, is a precondition for eating meat, rather than a mitzva.
		Shechita requires severing both of the animal's "simanim," meaning, the trachea and the esophagus.
		Tosefot, by contrast, followed the Kesef Mishneh's understanding, that shechita indeed constitutes a bona fide mitzvat asei, and the halakha requiring one to sever both simanim may thus be seen as a Torah obligation.
	www.vbm-torah.org /tuesday-23.htm (751 words)

	OU.ORG
		Kosher slaughter, shechita, involves cutting the trachea and esophagus with a sharp, flawless knife.
		After the shechita at AgriProcessors, an additional cut is made in the carotid arteries to further accelerate the bleeding.
		She said, after viewing the shechita, that the animals were unconscious within two to three seconds.
	www.ou.org /other/5765/shechita5-65.htm (963 words)

	OU.ORG
		Shechita involves the slicing or cutting of the trachea and esophagus with a sharp knife without nicks in a manner which has been established over centuries to be the most humane form of animal slaughter.
		There may be exceptional circumstances when, due to the closing of jugular veins or a carotid artery after the shechita cut, or due to the non-complete severance of an artery or vein, the animal may rise up on its legs and walk around.
		With the act of shechita, it is common to cut the carotid arteries, a practice designed to facilitate bleeding and accelerate unconsciousness.
	www.ou.org /other/5765/shechita2-65.htm (320 words)

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		They show animals, after shechita has taken place, having their trachea and esophagus pulled out of the neck, being ejected from the holding pens while still conscious, and, in at least one case, actually getting up and wandering around.
		In contrast, shechita, the halachic method of putting an animal to death for food, is designed to be as painless as possible.
		The act of shechita is meant to be a solemn religious act with its blessings and rules.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=6141014&postID=110375399875061277 (1436 words)

	Jewish Vegetarianism: When Kosher Isn't Kosher
		At every kosher slaughterhouse, animals are killed by a ritual cut to the neck called shechita that severs the esophagus and trachea (or at least one of these in the case of chickens and turkeys).
		Although Bloom did not actually see animals' throats slit and so does not know whether or not the animals' tracheas and esophagi were removed at that time, another anonymous source has come forward to state that she saw the trachea and esophagus procedure when she visited the slaughter line in 1998.
		When shechita becomes part of systematic abuse of animals rather than a compassionate compromise with the inherent violence of meat-eating, the wounds that are inflicted upon these animals becomes wounds inflicted on all of us.
	www.jewishveg.com /media11.html (2160 words)

	The Shechita Controversy
		A high-level USDA official, for that matter, visited the plant after PETA released its video to personally observe the allegedly inhumane practices and take appropriate action; what he saw apparently persuaded him that there was no need to shut down the plant or alter its basic practices.
		Shechita was attacked and outlawed by the Nazis when they came to power in Germany.
		PETA, on the other hand, has received an outpouring of support from leaders in the veterinary, animal welfare, and even meat industries, as well as in the Jewish community, who were shocked by the brazenly cruel treatment of animals that has, for years, been the norm at AgriProcessors.
	www.aish.com /jewishissues/jewishsociety/The_Shechita_Controversy.asp (2541 words)

	Shmais.com
		Contrary to Shechita, the non kosher kill, where the steer is hit in the head with a bolt, all you will see is blood oozing out from a small hole in the head and blood coming out from its mouth.
		Shechita is the most painless way to take the animals life.
		The cut that is being made after the Shechita is far away from the where the Shochet cut and is done in order to speed up the bleeding from the catorid arteries.
	www.shmais.com /jnewsdetail.cfm?ID=148 (2487 words)

	Shechita Through Butcher
		The shechita knife must be uncovered during the entire process of shechita.
		For this reason, the knife for shechita has a long and broad blade without a thin sharp end at the front or back.
		The cut must be performed on the throat, between the level of the larynx and the lower part of the trachea and esophagus.
	www.kosherquest.org /bookhtml/SHECHITA_THROUGH_BUTCHER.htm (2502 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: PETA Attacks Jewish Tradition by Michael Rosen
		shechita, which consists of a deep incision in an animal’s neck with a perfectly sharp knife, renders the animal insensate or unconscious within seconds.
		They also vowed to stamp out the unauthorized practice of tracheal and esophagal tearing, a method that is not required for proper kosher slaughtering but which may, in spite of appearances, ease the animal’s pain by quickening the bleeding and rapidly reducing bloodflow to the brain.
		While PETA itself grudgingly acknowledges that, “the whole purpose of shechita is to avoid unnecessary pain to the animal,” in this case the group has, as always, put animals before humans.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16562 (895 words)

	JewishJournal.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Shechita is widely believed to be a humane form of slaughter.
		Observers believe the move to allow shechita would be defeated in a referendum.
		A recent government-sponsored survey showed that all the Swiss cantons, or states, are against allowing shechita.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/print.php?id=7973 (406 words)

	Vayishlach 5760 - Rabbi Gedalia Hochberg
		A shechita performed by a Kuti - a group of gentiles who converted to Judaism in order to save themselves from being attacked by lions (See Melachim II Perek 17) is dependent on the validity of the Kuti conversion.
		Although he is commanded and obligated by themitzvah of shechita, nonetheless, one who is considered to be a violator of all mitzvot cannot be described as an individual who believes in the mitzva of shechita.
		Just as a gentile is excluded from the category of bar zevicha since he is not obligated by the mitzva of shechita, so too one who violates willfully the entire Torah is not abar zevicha due to his lack of belief in the mitzva of shechita.
	www.yoy.org.il /article.php?id=95 (803 words)

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		Instead, its expert Shechita services are provided to approved independent - and competing - abattoir operators who wholesale securely sealed and labelled carcasses to retailers.
		The Board usually provides regular Shechita and Kashrut services at four cattle abattoirs and two or three poultry abattoirs, offering a bespoke and keenly-priced service to its Licensees.
		Triennial elections are held for the election of the Treasurer, the members of the Licensing Committee and the delegates to the National Council of Shechita Boards.
	www.shechita.co.uk (1153 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: An Exchange over PETA by FrontPage Magazine
		Rosen is an interesting exercise, since he appears to support the exact resolution that we support where AgriProcessors and shechita in general are concerned.
		As just one example, and this is true both for kosher and non-kosher meat: Chickens are bred and drugged so that their upper bodies grow more than six times as quickly as they did just 50 years ago, so that their heart, lungs, and limbs can not keep up.
		So of course we’re not going after kosher slaughter first; those who want to stand up for shechita, however, are doing their efforts a disservice by defending the horrors we documented at AgriProcessors.
	frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16716 (2226 words)

	Modiya: Anti-Shechita
		In recent years, the Jewish practice of shechita, or ritual animal slaughter to obtain kosher meat, has met fierce opposition and has even been banned in a handful of European countries.
		They called shechita practice a "barbaric" and "sanguinary," an "archaic tradition from the time of the ghettos," and asked Jews to either become vegetarian or leave the country.
		Other adversaries of shechita have made a parallel between the Jewish treatment of animals and the Nazi treatment of Jews.
	modiya.nyu.edu /handle/1964/489 (982 words)

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		Noting that such a ban was an early step of Hitler's Third Reich, some fear the action is part of a growing assault on Jewish life linked to the spread of anti-Semitism sweeping across Europe.
		Its ban involved only older, heavier bulls - not cows or other animals - and was prompted by concerns that the thicker skin on such animals requires multiple strokes of the knife, which can cause pain in the animal.
		Rabbi Genack said there was no serious movement to ban shechita in the United States, which has a thriving animal rights activist movement.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0702/euro_kosher.asp (776 words)

	Animal Agriculture Alliance
		Kosher slaughter, shechita, involves a massive drop in blood pressure that renders the animal insensate almost immediately.
		After the shechita at AgriProcessors, an additional cut is made, not for kashrut reasons, but rather for commercial reasons, to reduce instances in which the meat turns a darker color.
		It should be kept in mind that in a non-kosher plant, when the animal is killed by a shot with a captive bolt to the brain, it may have to be re-shot before the animal collapses.
	www.animalagalliance.org /main/home.cfm?Section=Kosher_Slaughter_050208&Category=CurrentIssues (911 words)

	Vegetable Shechita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		To be considered kosher, a vegetable must undergo ritual slaughter (shechita).
		The knife must not be covered during the act of shechita.
		The stem must not be uprooted from the vegetable during the shechita.
	jeffu.tv /kosher/shechita.html (117 words)

	RESOLVING CONFLICTS BETWEEN VETERINARY SCIENCE AND SHECHITA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Two other papers, one dealing with the degree of exsanguination (Goltz, 1890) and the other on the measurement of ECG after slaughter appeared at this time (Kirilow, 1893), but the papers by Dembo had much more impact in giving the impression that kosher meat was of better quality (9).
		There are three basic issues with respect to the physiology of shechita: (a) the stress of the restraining methods; (b) pain perception during and after the incision, and (c) latency of the onset of complete insensibility.
		Dembo (8) suggested that this is due to the greater degree of exsanguination, which is affected by a variety of factors such as breed and age.
	www.isrvma.org /article/54_1_4.htm (3339 words)

	Bloghead: Shechita-gate - some further thoughts
		must act on their offer to go down to the abattoir and clarify once and for all what actually went on at that abattoir, whether the shechita there was halachic, and whether the animals who appear to be conscious after shechita are indeed still alive and feeling, or not.
		We have always been assured that the practice of shechita was done with the utmost concern for the welfare of the animals.
		Once the shechita has been done, and the shochet has checked with his fingers that both simanim were cut, nothing else matters.
	bloghd.blogspot.com /2004/12/shechita-gate-some-further-thoughts.html (1327 words)

	Shechita UK responds \| www.somethingjewish.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Shechita UK has submitted the formal response of the Jewish Community to the Government's Draft Response to the Farm Animal Welfare Council Report on the Welfare of Farmed Animals at Slaughter or Killing, Part 1: Red Meat Animals to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
		On the submission, Henry Grunwald QC, Honorary Chairman of Shechita UK, said "Our response relates to those recommendations included in the Government's draft response that pertain to the Jewish religious humane method of animal slaughter for food, known as shechita.
		Mr Grunwald concluded by stating that, "Shechita UK is an unprecedented, successful example of communal unity.
	www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1040_shechita_uk_responds.htm (260 words)

	Shechita
		Shechita ist die Bezeichnung für den rituellen Schlachtprozess im Judentum.
		Shechita beschreibt nicht allein den Prozess der selbst sondern auch die anschließende Kontrolle des und des Fleisches.
		Der Talmud lehrt dies im Traktat Chullin 27b auch der Schulchan Aruch geht auf diesen im Abschnitt Hilchot Shechita 1 ein.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Shechita.html (325 words)

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