[Avodah] Shechting animals upside down

[Zev Sero]

Marty Bluke wrote:
> R' Zev Sero wrote:
>> No technology is needed to lie an animal down on the ground and roll
>> it over, which is what was done.  Shechita munachat is *not* some
>> recent invention.

> R' Belsky disagrees. His point was that the chumra has no basis in
> Shas or Rishonim and is based on a mistaken diyuk in the Shach.

It depends what you mean by "recent".  It's certainly not some
mishugas that got invented 30 years ago, or even 100 years ago.
It goes back farther than the invention of the technology that
the OP thought proved his case.

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