HUMANE SLAUGHTER
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—In your advocacy of humane slaughter, you expressed surprise that it is not made obligatory in this country. May I suggest that the House of Commons as a whole is very sympathetic to the claims of animals on human kindness, but it not unnaturally wishes to be convinced on this matter, that the suggested change is both humane and calculated to avoid waste of the flesh of animals when killed.
The R.S.P.C.A., which has done excellent work along these lines, is reintroducing a Bill to make humane slaughter obligatory, and as it has a good place in the ballot it ought to be passed. Let me assure you that no humane cause is ever brought before Members of Parliament without the fullest information and guidance. Very often there are diffi- culties in the way of meeting the wishes of everyone. The R.S.P.C.A. itself recognizes the existence of these difficulties, and invariably and reasonably tries to meet them, but, Idealism in our time " is, I fear, a remote contingency. Yet immense progress is being made in that direction.—I am,
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