> Essentially it says to make a shallow incision in the skin with a
> sharp knife at the throat, in order to expose the specific blood
> vessel you need to cut. Then, having accomplished this, you cut that
> blood vessel and let the animal bleed to death, which is, I gather,
> relatively painless compared to some other methods.

And is essentially the Kosher method, except that Kosher schochet requires a
single stroke that severs both carotids. If you don't get it with one stroke,
it's not kosher. This ensures that the animal becomes unconscious almost
immediately, and exsanguinates rapidly. Any professional in the industry will
tell you that Kosher slaughter is indeed the most humane method of killing a
four-foot. Nevertheless, there are attempts being made in some of the
Midwestern states, in a case of blatant anti-Semitism, to outlaw Kosher
slaughtering as "inhumane".

Avraham

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Avraham haRofeh of Northpass (soon to be "of Sudentur")
     (mka Randy Goldberg MD)