"The animal upside down with ruptured joints and often a broken leg, twists frantically in pain and terror, so that it must be gripped by the neck or have a clamp inserted in its nostrils to enable the slaughterer to kill the animal with a single stroke, as religious law prescribes.".

Ordinarily the cattle would be killed humanely with an electric bolt, but for months the abattoir had been on a special kosher order for America. By rabbinical law the animals had to have their throats slit and then be hung upside down to bleed to death. The tubes twisted so the animals were turned on their backs. As they reached the end, chains were wrapped around their hind legs. A crane shot the cattle into the air one by one and snapped their back legs. Then a fork was inserted into each beast's nose as one of two Jewish butchers blessed the long knife in his hand, said a short prayer and slit the throat of the animal which was then pulled higher into the air, the blood pouring in sheets from its neck and its front legs kicking wildly. We would sometimes watch in horrified fascination from a window above the killing box as the creatures were hauled along the bleeding trough in their final throes. Once a thrashing cow hurled itself against the window where we stood, shattering the glass and spattering us with gore. You could not watch for long. Bob Geldof, Is That It? "Animals being ritually slaughtered in the United States are shackeld around a rear leg, hoisted into the air, and then hang, fully conscious, upside down on the conveyer belt for between two and five minutes-and occasionally much longer if something goes wrong on the killing line before the slaughterer makes his cut. "

"The animal upside down with ruptured joints and often a broken leg, twists frantically in pain and terror, so that it must be gripped by the neck or have a clamp inserted in its nostrils to enable the slaughterer to kill the animal with a single stroke, as religious law prescribes." When Kosher isn't Kosher She told me that the first time she visited a kosher slaughter house, she heard screaming cattle from a half kilometer away and wondered what was different in this place. What she saw was shocking. I quote from her book,Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life With Autism by Temple Grandin "I will never forget having nightmares after visiting the now defunct Spencer Foods plant in Spencer, Iowa fifteen years ago. Employees wearing football helmets attached a nose tong to the nose of a writhing beast suspended by a chain wrapped around one back leg. Each terrified animal was forced with an electric prod to run into a small stall which had a slick floor on a forty-five degree angle. This caused the animal to slip and fall so that workers could attach the chain to its rear leg [in order to raise it into the air]. As I watched this nightmare, I thought, 'This should not be happening in a civilized society.' In my diary I wrote, 'If hell exists, I am in it.' I vowed that I would replace the plant from hell with a kinder and gentler system." And she has been doing that for years now. You may wonder why the Rabbayin listen to a gentile, autistic woman. Kosher Slaugher So unless you have cruel heart kosher meat should be avoided. ~~~~~~~~ Video of kosher slaughter of meat animals (PETA) Short Version Long Version