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Show lfjl Hi to AT 14 si I l$m Ilr RIM! B himI 111 Mil 9 1 111 112 ANIMALS i Jews Oppose a Bill For Prevention of Cruelty Boston, March 2. Jewish rabbis and physicians will make a strong plea before the committee on public health in opposition to a bill submitted by the society for the prevention of cruelty cru-elty to animals providing that animals lnte.nded for food shall be thrown and stunned before being slaughtered and that no animal shall bu hung up by Its legs before it is deprived of sensation. sensa-tion. Rabbis say that if passed, tho bill would force the 150,000 or more Jews In Massachusetts to secure meat from outside tho, commonwealth as they declare It runs counter to Jow-lsh Jow-lsh laws and customs. For many centuries the Jewish method of slaughter has been to cast the creaturo and cut Its thront with a single stroke of the lenife. Jewish physicians declare that the creature suffers noj pain when killed In this manner. - , |