JEWISH SLAUGHTER
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR, Mr. C. H. L. Emanuel, Hon. Secretary to the Shechita Committee, Board of Deputies of British Jews, in your issue of July 20th, attacks statements in my letter in your issue of June 29th, accusing me of an " irresponsible spirit " in describing the Jewish method of slaughter.
I beg to say that a slaughterhouse is scarcely the sort of place in which one would choose to go in a light and "irresponsible spirit." In regard to what Mr. Emanuel says of the introduc- tion of mattresses in the casting for the Jewish method, these were, I believe, introduced subsequent to my strong public protest after my first sight of the Jewish method in 1922. I have seen these mattresses used, and they did not appear to amend matters, for one wretched animal, after being thrown, was found to be not in the right position, and was made to get up again and be rethrown.
I will not reiterate my previous letter, but will merely add that Switzerland has forbidden Jewish slaughter because of its cruelty, and recently the Odelsting, the lower House of the Norwegian Parliament, has passed a Bill prohibiting Shechita in Norway as a result of a strong protest raised by the Veter- inary Surgeons and the people of Norway against the cruelty of the method.--I am, Sir, &c., NINA HAMILTON AND BRANDON. (President, The Animal Defence Society.) 85 Old Bond Street, W. 1.
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