<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#047879">I don't know who "we" is, since I was never taught this.</font><div>So since YOU were never taught this, therefore, it can't be so?</div><div>Is it not possible there are m'forshim who taught that the purpose</div><div>of shechitah is to cause a painless death to the animal? Are the</div><div>musmachim from whom I was taught, all wrong??<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#047879"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#047879"><br></font></div>Indeed I don't think it was even known that shechitah was painless until<br>the modern era, when it became possible to attach scanners to animals'<br>skulls and detect their brain activity.</font><div><br></div><div>So assuming it wasn't even known that shechitah was painless, you don't</div><div>think HaShem knew? Do you think that was the ONLY thing that wasn't </div><div>known by man? So therefore, what does it prove? </div></div></body></html>