HUMANE SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS
[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I read with pleasure the excellent article, " For Beast and Bird," published in your issue of February 17th. I was glad to notice also in your last issue a letter from Colonel Moore, M.P., emphasizing the fact that England was lagging behind Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Island of Jersey with regard to the enforcement by Act of Parliament of humane methods of slaughtering animals for food.
The success of these humane methods is proved by hundreds of butchers who have voluntarily adopted them, and by thousands of other butchers, who, in compliance with the Ministry of Health's Model By-laws adopted by their local authorities, have also used mechanical killers. The matter of humane slaughter has therefore been removed from the realm of the theoretical to the practical. There can thus be no really justifiable opposition to this long-delayed reform, particularly in the face of the experience that has been accumulated since the question of the humane slaughter of animals for food was first brought to notice by the
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