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The following news is from the JTA and Grandin.com and Koshertoday.composted on November 3, 2015.
" The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority advised the government to ban ritual slaughter of animals, citing pain and suffering caused to them in the process." "The authority said it opposed ritual slaughter because it means that animals may take more than 45 seconds to die, during which time they may be subjected to stress and pain." Temple Grandin has found the average time to be 15 to 30 seconds.
The Dutch Israelite Religious Community, on NIK, has argued that the strict rules of shechitah, the Hebrew word for kosher slaughter, assure minimum suffering that does not exceed that of non-kosher slaughterhouses. "Kosher Today has learned that kosher slaughter in the Netherlands involves only 60 animals a week."
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