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This is the first study of historical attempts by animal welfare groups to ban the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita). It details cases from Australia, Canada, England, Scotland, and the United States, many for the first time, in which anti-animal cruelty groups prosecuted those engaged in shechita as part of their attempts to introduce compulsory stunning of animals before slaughter. Despite claims to the contrary, this study offers clear evidence of underlying, unrelenting antisemitic motivations in the prosecutions, and highlights the ways in which a basic idea of innate Jewish cruelty was always juxtaposed with an overtly Christian ideal of humane treatment of animals across time and borders.

Shehitah --- Livestock --- Animal rights movement --- Meat industry and trade --- Religious discrimination --- NATURE / Animal Rights. --- RELIGION / Judaism / Rituals & Practice. --- COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / Jewish & Kosher. --- Discrimination --- Meat consumption --- Packing industry --- Food industry and trade --- Social movements --- Animal husbandry --- Farm animals --- Live stock --- Stock (Animals) --- Stock and stock-breeding --- Agriculture --- Animal culture --- Animal industry --- Domestic animals --- Food animals --- Herders --- Range management --- Rangelands --- Shechita --- Shechitah --- Shehita --- Shochet --- Shohet --- Slaughtering and slaughter-houses --- Jews --- Judaism --- Stunning --- Law and legislation --- Dietary laws --- Customs and practices --- Jewish method of slaughter. --- Shechita. --- abattoirs. --- animal cruelty. --- antisemitism. --- humane societies. --- kashrut. --- shochet.