Legalized Cruelty of Shechita: The Jewish Method of Cattle-Slaughter by Arnold Leese

A reprint of Arnold Leese’s pamphlet on sheshita, a Jewish method for slaughtering cattle by cutting their throats from ear-to-ear without first stunning them. Leese references the Slaughter of Animals Act (1933) and asks, “Why, in a country calling itself Christian, and with a population Aryan or of Aryan strain, should Jews and Mahomedans be allowed to kill their cattle by methods less humane than those we have ourselves have adopted?” Leese argues that the Jews continue this method, not for religious reasons as they claim, but because they make money by selling the portion of the cattle they’re prohibited from eating to Gentiles. Leese accuses the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of ignoring the issue for fear of losing Jewish and Masonic financial support and states, “one of the first acts of a Fascist Government in Britain would be to abolish [any exceptions to the Slaughter of Animals Act].