Agriculture Ministry raids illegal slaughterhouse

02.09.2013                      27.Elul.5773

Umwelt & Technologie:

Agriculture Ministry raids illegal slaughterhouse

Galilee farm killed thousands of chickens in unsupervised and unsanitary conditions.

The Agriculture Ministry announced on Sunday that inspectors had raided a lower Galilee farm and found that it was conducting illegal poultry slaughter in poor conditions.
The raid occurred on Thursday, the ministry said, after intelligence information revealed that the slaughterhouse was conducting schita shechura (“black slaughter”) – an illegal slaughter of animals for human consumption that is conducted without veterinary supervision….