Shechita

Dalam Agama Yahudi, shechita (anglikanisasi: /ʃəxiːˈtɑː/; Ibrani: שחיטה; [ʃχiˈta]; juga ditransliterasikan menjadi shehitah, shechitah, shehita) adalah penjagalan mamalia dan unggas tertentu untuk dijadikan makanan sesuai dengan hukum kashrut.

Shechita
Sebuah gambar abad ke-15 dari shechita dan bedikah.
Teks Halakha yang terkait artikel ini:
Taurat:	Ulangan 12:21, Ulangan 14:21, Bilangan 11:22
Mishnah:	Hullin
Talmud Babel:	Hullin
Mishneh Torah:	Sefer Kodashim, Hilchot shechita
Shulchan Aruch:	Yoreh De'ah 1:27
Kode-kode rabbinik lain:	Sefer ha-Chinuch mitzvah 451
* Tidak dimaksudkan sebagai suatu Posek (aturan definitif). Sejumlah pelaksanaan mungkin berdasarkan sastra rabbinik, minhag (kebiasaan) atau Taurat.

Sumber Alkitab

Taurat (Ulangan 12:21) menyatakan bahwa domba dan sapi harus dijagal "sesuai dengan yang kuperintahkan kepadamu", namun dalam lima kitab Musa, terdapat sejumlah praktek shechita yang dideskripsikan.

Bacaan tambahan

• Arluke, Arnold; Sax, Boria (1992). "Understanding Animal Protection and the Holocaust". Anthrozoös. 5 (1): 6–31. doi:10.2752/089279392787011638. 
• The Jewish method of Slaughter Compared with Other Methods : from the Humanitarian, Hygienic, and Economic Points of View (1894) Author: Dembo, Isaak Aleksandrovich, 1847?-1906 (the date is incorrectly given as 1984, corrected here)
• Neville G. Gregory, T. Grandin: Animal Welfare and Meat Science Publisher: CABI; 1 edition 304 pp (December 1998)
• Pablo Lerner and Alfredo Mordechai Rabello The Prohibition of Ritual Slaughtering (Kosher Slaughtering and Halal) and Freedom of Religion of Minorities Journal of Law and Religion 2006
• Dorothee Brantz Stunning Bodies: Animal Slaughter, Judaism, and the Meaning of Humanity in Imperial Germany
• Robin Judd The Politics of Beef: Animal Advocacy and the Kosher Butchering Debates in Germany
• Appendix I in Meat and Meat Processing. Y. H. Hui; (CRC Press. Second Edition 2012) A Discussion of Stunned and Nonstunned Slaughter prepared by an International Group of Scientists and Religious Leaders: Dr Shuja Shali (Muslim Council of Britain), Dr Stuart Rosen (Imperial College, London, UK), Dr Joe M. Regenstein (Cornell University, USA) and Dr Eric Clay (Shared Journeys, USA). Reviewers: Dr Temple Grandin (Colorado State University, USA), Dr. Ari Zivotofsky (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Dr Doni Zivotofsky (DVM, Israel), Rabbi David Sears (Author of Vision of Eden, Brooklyn, USA, Dr Muhammad Chaudry (Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, Chicago) and Paul Hbhav, (Islamic Services of America) Google books
• David Fraser Anti-Shechita Prosecutions in the Anglo-American World, 1855-1913: "A major attack on Jewish freedoms"(North American Jewish Studies)

Pranala luar

• The Cutting Edge: The debate over the regulation of ritual slaughter in the western world Jeremy A. Rovinsky
• Shechita at The Orthodox Union
• What's the Truth about Niqqur Acharonayim? by Rabbi Dr. Ari Z. Zivotofsky
• Laws of Judaism concerning food laws of ritual slaughter
• Shechita - The Jewish Religious Humane Method of Animal Slaughter for Food
• Shehitah: A photo essay Diarsipkan 2019-09-14 di Wayback Machine.
• From the Slaughterhouse to the Consumer. Transparency and Information in the Distribution of Halal and Kosher Meat. Dialrel project report. Authors: J. Lever, María Puig de la Bellacasa, M. Miele, Marc Higgin. University of Cardiff Cardiff, U.K.
• dialrel final report: Consumer and Consumption issues: Halal and Kosher Focus Groups Results Dr Florence Bergeaud-Blacker IREMAM (CNRS) & Université de la Méditerrainée, Aix-Marseille; Dr Adrian Evans, University of Cardiff; Dr Ari Zivotofsky, Bar-Ilan University
• Comparative Report of the Public Debates on Religious Slaughter in Germany, UK, France & Norway. DIALREL Encouraging Dialogue in Issues of Religious Slaughter. Comparative report: Lill M Vramo & Taina Bucher: SIFO (National Institute for Consumer Research); National Reports (in appendix): Florence Bergeaud-Blecker (French report) Adrian Evans (UK report) Taina Bucher, Lill M. Vramo & Ellen Esser (German report) Taina Bucher, Laura Terragni & Lill M. Vramo (Norwegian report) 01/03/2009
• S.D. Rosen Physiological Insights into Shechita The Veterinary Record (2004) 154, 759-765
• Should Animals be Stunned Before Slaughter? Raffi Berg BBC
• Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, What Does "Glatt" Mean? on Arutz Sheva.