Kosher slaughter (when done correctly — and there are bad actors) is far more humane than regular slaughter. It’s all about not permitting the animal to suffer.
I suspect it was included to avoid problems with the savages.
Good point.
First Law the Nazis passed after gaining power was to ban Kosher slaughter.
"...After affirming the humaneness of schechita [kosher slaughter] , Dr. Grandin takes issue with a new study in New Zealand that seemed to conclude that schechita causes pain to animals. Writes Dr. Grandin: “I have observed that cattle held in an upright restraint device had almost no reaction to correctly done slaughter that was performed with a special long knife.” She responds to those who advocate stunning the animals before schechita by saying that from her observations “it appears that when good practices are used, the steer or lamb will stay still and not react to the cut.
In a bold response to a New Zealand study that concluded that slaughter without stunning causes pain, Dr. Grandin said that the knife in the study was shorter than those used in schechita, uncertainty whether the wound was kept open like in schechita , and the sharpening of the knives was done by a mechanical device rather than on a whetstone. It was studies like these that led to the banning of schechita in New Zealand."
I have noticed, after reading studies like that done in New Zealand, that the authors seemed to start out with the attitude that kosher slaughter was inhumane, even before they witnessed it properly done. This New Zealand study did NOT employ the exact methods used during kosher slaughter, as Dr. Grandin pointed out, and so any conclusions reached by the researchers that schechita was inhumane were NOT valid.