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Action AlertsAsk Kosher Authorities to Develop Clear Standards for Slaughter CertificationPETA's recent investigation at AgriProcessors, the world's largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse, documented hideous cruelty to animals that Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz of the Central Conference of American Rabbis called "sickening." Click here to learn more about the investigation, to watch the video, and to read statements from Israel's chief rabbinate, current slaughterhouse inspectors, scholars, and many others.We need your help! Please ask the Orthodox Union (OU), the world's largest kosher certifier, and the K'hal Adath Jeshurun (KAJ) to adopt the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) guidelines for ritual slaughter and to take appropriate action to ensure that animals are no longer abused by AgriProcessors. For AgriProcessors, this must include unannounced audits by an inspector approved of by Dr. Temple Grandin. You can read the FMI guidelines for ritual slaughter here. The FMI guidelines prohibit electric prods and ensure that animals are not turned upside-down before their throats are slit and that they are not moved until they are unconscious after throat-slitting. The OU and KAJ should explicitly recognize and train shochets (slaughterers) to recognize the physiological signs of consciousness in cattle—blinking, bellowing, standing, rhythmic breathing, and attempting to right the head—to ensure that no animals are touched or moved until they are unconscious. All equipment must be inspected to ensure that it is not harming animals (e.g., conveyor belts should not trap chickens and break their legs). Click here to read our letter to the Orthodox Union. Click here to read PETA's response to the Orthodox Union's statement regarding AgriProcessors.
Ask the USDA to Demand Standards for Religious SlaughterIn a recent investigation into the world's largest kosher slaughterhouse, PETA documented hideous cruelty to animals that meat-industry consultant Dr. Temple Grandin called "horrific," saying that the plant was "doing everything wrong they can do wrong." Click here to learn more about the investigation, to watch the video, and to read statements from the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture, current slaughterhouse inspectors, rabbis, and others.We need your help! Please ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to file criminal charges against AgriProcessors and to reprimand any inspectors who allowed the cruelty at AgriProcessors to continue. Please also ask that the USDA develop explicit and publicly available guidelines for religious slaughter. The United States should follow the lead of Australia, Canada, and the European Union in developing guidelines for religious slaughter that require that animals not be touched or moved until they are unconscious, which should take no more than 30 seconds after throat-slitting. If they are not fully unconscious within 20 seconds, animals should be stunned via captive-bolt guns. All religious slaughterers should be trained in the physiological signs of consciousness in animals-blinking, bellowing, standing, rhythmic breathing, and attempting to right the head—to ensure that no conscious animals are touched or moved. Click here to read PETA's letter to the USDA. If you are Jewish, please click here for more that you can do: The Honorable Ann Veneman |
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