Reasonable anti-cruelty laws are, well, reasonable.
But yeah, there are probably worse transgressions they could be going after.
What’s wrong with killing an individual chicken by cutting its neck with a sharp knife or whacking its head off with an ax than putting it upside down in a metal tube on an assembly line with thousands of other chickens to have their heads cut off mechanically? Which is less cruel or more cruel?
as a religious practice it is protected from governmental intrusion, providing for food enters health law and rules. when the animal has a brain the size of a democrat it probably thinks its last ride was fun.