Excerpt from Slaughter-House Reform: In the United States and the Opposing Forces, I. The Packing Interests, II. The Defenders of the Hebrew Method

It requires but a moment's thought to discover that, with more than a hundred million four-footed creatures annually being driven to the shambles of the United States, the amount of needless suffering there endured must many times outweigh the pain inflicted elsewhere upon defenseless animal life.

The need for reform in the methods of slaughter is felt not only by humanitarians in this country, it is growing wherever men and women are hearing the call of a worthier civilization. In England the matter has been forced upon the consideration of Parliament till a commission, appointed by that body, has reported with very positive recommendations in favor of more humane methods. In France, at a recent congress of animal protective societies, resolutions were passed urging upon the state the need of immediate action to change conditions in all French abattoirs. Those familiar with the situation know that for years Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland have been revolutionizing the whole system of animal slaughter with a view to reducing the sufferings of the animals destroyed.

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