The Jewish way of slaughtering animals has been safeguarded from restriction by government officials in Holland thanks to productive negotiations between rabbis and the country’s Agriculture Department, according to the executive director of the Jewish community in Amsterdam.
As a result of those talks, Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch minister of agriculture, has now issued a new instruction that allows the Jewish community to continue slaughtering as it has done in the past, says David Sephos. A limitation of three seconds has been introduced in which the cut has to be performed. A previous ruling limiting the number of movements of the knife has been abandoned.
In a WorldNetDaily story published Dec. 3, it was reported that Holland had become the latest nation in Europe to ban the kosher slaughter of animals. Jewish officials in Holland say they are satisfied the negotiations of last summer end any imminent threat to the production of kosher meat.
Other European nations have indeed banned the practice of kosher slaughter, and others are considering restrictions on the practice.
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