Last year about 20,000.000 cat I tie went through this process in i American slaughter houses. The precedures described above ; are the ordinary routine of our i billion-dollar meat packin: in dustry. But the animals going to their death are often not given the "benefit" of the routine. ! A U. S. Department of Agrieul ture inspector who has worked in many packing plants in the las 25 yeaiis wrote to the Human Society lof the United States: “When calves are slaughter! | they are shackled and pulled up j to an over head rail and bled : Sometimes the hind feet an skinned out and cut off while the animal is stilt alive and they j come out on the floor by a moving I chain still kicking This same man not an t-mo : tional layman but a man who : lias worked in slaughter hous s I for a quarter of a century — wrote: "I have seen cattle which were knocked with the hammer and | rolled out on tire floor and hunt up for bleeding after sticking, . and the header started to skin , out the head while the animal | was still alive and was trying to bellow." "Speaking in terms of moral ity. our nation long ago outlawed cruelty to animals. Every one of the major religions of our people names cruelty a sin. Every state of the Union, and the Fedral gov ernment itself have declared in a multitude of laws that cruelty to animals is impermissible. All thoughtful persons recog nize that cruelty is an evft that should be eradicated from our so ciety, not merely for the sake of the animals but for our own good. We know that cruelty j whether to animals or to man, i causes in the perpetrator a moral j and cultural erosin that is harm ! ful to the whole of society. James Aldrick Farmville, Va

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