Sent to me by PETA:
An exemplary mainstay of the lifestyle of halakhically-observant Jews is that they are willing to make sacrifices for the observance of Halakah. Thus all halakhically-observant Jews keep kosher, though, as is well known, kosher meat is appreciably more expensive than non-kosher meat. Similarly, a sizeable percentage of halakhically-observant Jews accept the more stringent requirement of glatt kosher meat -- though that meat is even more expensive.
But for a person to insist upon the most stringent requirements with regard to the ritual portion of the slaughtering process and yet at the same time flagrantly not insist upon stringent requirements with regard to the crucial moral aspect of the slaughtering process -- the necessity to guarantee beyond the slightest doubt that there is no tza'ar ba'alei hayyim (pain caused to animals) which is not absolutely essential to the slaughtering process -- makes the entire kashrut endeavor of that person both suspect and absurd. It very well may be that any plant performing such types of shechita is guilty of hillul hashem -- the desecration of God's name -- for to insist that that God cares only about his ritual law and not about his moral law is to desecrate His Name.
Dr. Chaim Milikowsky
Chair
Talmud Department
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan
Israel