Humane and Inhumane Slaughter..
Colonel Moore's Slaughter • of Animals Bill, whose strong claim - to attention was urged in -our issue of February 17th, will come up in the House of Commons next Friday. - Its object is to make compulsory in England, as it already is in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the use of the humane killer in slaughter-houses. The method of killing with pole-axe or ,knife often causes terrible and unnecessary suffering to the victim, and is likely to have, to say the least of it, an undesirable moral effect on those who administer it. Death by the humane killer is instantaneous,- and the flesh of the animals as meat is in no wise affected. • Sir Herbert Barker states, in a letter to The Times, that of 16,000,000 animals slaughtered annually in England for food, no fewer -than 12,000,000 are still dispatched by the old- fashioned- method. In Scotland not one is. Readers who wish to help should write to their local Members urging them to support Colonel Moore.
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