Date: 1985-07-31
Speaker: HERBERT SCOVILLE (republican)
Chamber: S

ExCIA in achieving approval of the United OFFICIAL. DIES AT 70 Nations declaration on the elimination (By Joseph D. Whitaker) of allforms of religious intolerance. At Dr. Herbert Scoville Jr.. 70. a former the end of last year. Dr. Lewin submitdeputy director of the CIA and assistant di- ted a working paper to the U.N. Semirector of the U.S. Arms Control and Disar- nar on the Encouragement of Undermament Agency who had written extensively on issues relating to arms control. died of standing. Tolerance and Respect in cancer July 30 at Georgetown University Matters Relating to Freedom of ReliHospital. He maintained homes in McLean gion or Belief in Geneva. The paper is and Taconic. Conn. entitled. "The Prohibition of the Dr. Scoville began his campaign for nucle- Jewish Religious Method of Slaughar arms control in the 1950s following the tering Animals for Food." famed nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll. He argued at the Pentagon in 1954 for a test ban treaty and over the next three decades report be printed in the RECORD in its was a consistent opponents of a nuclear entirety. arms buildup. The material follows: Through his books. "Missile Madness" UNITED NATIONS SEMINAR ON THE ENcouRand "MX: Presetiption for Disaster." and in AGEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING. TOLERANCE speaking engagements in this country and AND RESPECT IN MATTERS RELATING TO abroad. Dr. Scoville sought to lay the issues FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF of arms control before the public. Dr. Scoville said in a 1983 article in The Washington Post that he believed the U.S. METHOD OF SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS FOR FOOD was "drifting toward annihilation." Some- In several countries. religious Jews are dehow the public doesnt seem to be able to prived of meat consumption. because the grasp the significance of the issue." he said. Jewish religious method of slaughtering ani"They read these numbers50 million will mals for food called Shehitah is prohibited. be killed in an atomic attack. whole cities This discrimination has a long history. wiped out. Its nothing they can conceive of. Before assuming power in Germany the It has no meaning in their daytoday lives. Nazis accused in their propaganda the Jews "If an airplane crashes and 75 people are of being cruel to animals. Due to their efburned up. thats a diaster everyone can vis- forts. several German states (Bavaria. ualize." Dr. Scoville continued. "They can Baden. Thuringia. Brunswick. Wuerttempicture themselves in the airplane. But a berg) outlawed the Jewish religious method nuclear war that destroys our societythat of slaughtering animals for food even before tends to be just numbers. Its too depressing the Nazi takeover of the German governand they dont see what they can do about ment. After Hitler became chancellor. he it anyway." issued (on April 21. 1933) a decree which anFrom 1955 to 1963. Dr. Scoville worked for nulled the law of 1917 permitting the the Central Intelligence Agency. where he Jewish method. Immediately after occupybecame the deputy director. For the next ing Poland. the German GovernorGeneral six years. he was the assistant director of Hans Frank issued a decree (dated October the Arms Control and Disarmament 26. 1939) which stated: "In any territory Agency. He resigned from the federal serv- under German rule. cruelty to animals of ice in 1969. Between 1958 and 1966. he also any kind is not permissible. Effective immewas a member of U.S. delegations to three diately. I therefore forbid Shehitah. that is. disarmament conferences in Geneva. the painful slaughter of animals. by means Dr. Scoville was born in New York. He of gradual draining of blood for the purpose graduated from Yale University and earned of the socalled kosher meat consumption. his doctorate in physical chemistry at the This discriminatory regulation was repeated University of Rochester. He moved to Wash- by German rulers in other occupied counington in the early 1940s and went to work tries (Slovakia. Holland. France. Belgium). for the National Research Defense Commit- Needless to say. the Jewish religious tee. method of slaughtering animals for food has been recognized by hundreds of the.. DROP N DucKMIGRATION MAY CUs FALL greatest experts as most humane. HUNTING Id England it is permitted by a law adopt- (By Philip Sharecoff) ed in 1933. In the United States of America. WASHINGTON. July 30United States and Public Law 85765 of August 27. 1958. clear- Canadian wildlife officials said today that ly states that "slaughtering In accordance the number of ducks migrating south this with the ritual requirements of the Jewish fall is likely to be sharply below last year faith or any other religious faith that pre- and the lowest on record. scribes a method of slaughter whereby the Because of the steep decline in the proanimal suffers loss of consciousness by jected duck population. the Interior Departanemia of the brain caused by the simulta- ments Fish and Wildlife Service is considerneous and instantaneous severance of the ing a steep reduction in the number of carotid arteries with a sharp instrument"- ducks that may be taken by hunters this is "hereby found to be humane". year. Nevertheless. in some countries such as The United States Fish and Wildlife ServSweden or Switzerland the Jewish religious ice and the Canadian Wildlife Service promethod of slaughtering animals for food jected today that about 62 million ducks (called Shehitah) is practically prohibited. would migrate south this fall. 22 percent because legislation in these countries re- lower than last year. The total flight of quires preliminary stunning -of the animal. ducks is the lowest projected since the agenwhich makes Shehitah impossible. The ex- ces began making the annual forecast in perts who studied this method scientificaly 1969. (using modern methods such as electroenl- DECLINE IN NUMBER OF DUCKS cephalography) declared stunning unneces- The lower fall migration is an index of the sary since the loss of consciousness takes overall decline in the total duck population. place almost instantaneously (within 35 Last week the United States Fish and Wildseconds) after the cut. life Service reported that the number of Material concerning this problem has ducks breeding this spring was also down been collected in the book Religious Free- sharply. dom: The Right to Practice Shehitah by Officials of the Fish and Wildlife Service Isaac Lewin. Michael Munk and Jeremiah and of hunting and conservation groups atBerman (New York. 1946). Additional mate- tributed the steep decline in the duck popurial can be found in the book Unto the lation to the rapid loss and degradation of Mountains by Isaac Lewin (New York. wetlands. a prime duck habitat. combined 1975). with severe drought in areas frequented by It is suggested that. in accordance with ducks. Article IV of the Declaration on the Elimi- Each state has Its own migratory bird pronation of All Forms of Intolerance and Dis- tection program. and the Federal Governcrimination Based on Religion or Belief. the ment. as a signer of the Migratory Bird ProStates which today do not permit the prac- tection Treaty. is responsible for taking tice of Shehitah shall rescind legislation action to preserve birds that cross internawhich whether directly or indirectly (by re- tional boundaries. quiring preliminary stunning) includes dis- A statement by the Federal wildlife servcriminatory prohibitions which offend the ice said that the councils of state. Federal Jewish religion and deeply hurt the Jewish and Canadian wildlife managers for North population. Americas fouif major flyways were discuss-