"First, the
animal is thrown on the floor by having its feet jerked out from under it (the fall has not infrequently broken its
horns, or otherwise
injured it). Then its body is partly hoisted by a
chain fastened about a
hind ankle, then an appliance is gripped about its
muzzle and its head is twisted over until its face is flat against the floor and its
neck upturned. Then the long
knife cuts deep across the
throat, and for a space, often running into several minutes, it kicks and plunges in its wild attempts to rise, thrashing about the bloody and
slimy floor in its dying
agony - a sight as pitiable and heartrending as one will endure. That's the Jewish
method, described without
exaggeration, as I have seen it more than a score of times."
Quoted in Slaughter-House Reform in the United States and the Opposing Forces, by Dr. Francis H. Rowley, The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Boston, USA, p. 13.