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The slaughter process has two stages. Stunning – when performed correctly, stunning causes an animal to lose consciousness so the animal can't feel pain. The law states that, with few exceptions, all animals must be stunned before 'sticking' (neck cutting) is carried out.
- Religious Slaughter
51% of cattle carcases and 43% of sheep carcases slaughtered...
- Religious Slaughter
Oct 9, 2015 · 1. When an animal dies in the slaughterhouse, pathways connecting digested food to tissues and organs are interrupted. Rigor mortis sets in quickly, the muscles gradually contracting and causing stiffness in the body. At this moment, the animal’s meat becomes extremely tough. 2.
- Restraining Animals
- Killing Horses
- Restraining Methods You Must Not Use
- Animal Stunning and Killing
- Monitor Animals For Consciousness
- Electrical Stunning
- Captive Bolt Stunning
- Firearm Stunning
- Gas Stunning
- Gas Mixtures
You must restrain an animal in the appropriate way before you stun or kill it. Your equipment for restraining animals must: 1. be in good working order 2. allow you to stun or kill an animal effectively 3. prevent injury or cuts to animals 4. minimise struggling and vocalisation 5. minimise the time an animal’s restrained You must only put animals ...
You must kill a horse in a separate room or a bay from other animals. You must only use the room for this purpose. You must not kill a horse: 1. in sight of another horse 2. in a room where there are remains of another horse or other animal
If you restrain animals, you must not: 1. suspend or hoist them while they’re unconscious 2. clamp or tie an animal’s legs or feet 3. sever an animal’s spinal cord 4. immobilise an animal with electrical stunning equipment or electric shock devices
You must stun all animals before you kill them unless you’re carrying out religious slaughter. When you stun an animal, it must remain unconscious and unable to feel pain until death. Once you stun it, you must kill it immediately. You can use stunning methods that instantly kill an animal, for example using a gun or rifle.
Between stunning and killing, you must check animals for signs of consciousness and unconsciousness. You must have a CoC on checking the effectiveness of stunning. Your slaughterhouse’s standard operating procedureshould also list what monitoring procedures will be used for each type of animal. Someone, usually an animal welfare officer (AWO), shou...
Electrical stunning is a method of simple stunning, so you’ll need to follow it with another operation to kill the animal once it’s unconscious. When you carry out electrical stunning you must make sure that: 1. there’s good electrical contact with the animal 2. electrodes span the brain of the animal and can be adapted for the size of animal 3. th...
You must follow the manufacturer’s instructions when using any device, including positioning and using the correct strength of cartridge.
You can use a firearm or shotgun to stun and kill an animal. You must use the correct power and calibre of cartridge for the type of animal.
Gas stunning is a method of killing pigs. You must use a gas stunner to do this and follow the manufacturer’s instructions. You must expose each pig to the gas for long enough to kill it and be able to: 1. see the pigs in the gas stunner 2. access the pigs as quickly as possible 3. flush the stunner with air so you can enter the chamber Gas stunner...
You can use: 1. carbon dioxide at high concentration 2. carbon dioxide mixed with inert gases 3. inert gases You must not allow gases to enter the chamber or the location where animals are to be stunned and killed in a way that could create burns or excitement by freezing or lack of humidity. You must only stun pigs by gas if each pig is exposed to...
In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈæbətwɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals are slaughtered to provide food. Slaughterhouses supply meat, which then becomes the responsibility of a meat-packing facility.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a 1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction -infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years, to his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant during World War II, to the post-war years.
- Kurt Vonnegut
- 1969
What is a slaughterhouse? A slaughterhouse is where farmed animals go to be killed and have their bodies processed into food and other products. Every year billions of live animals enter slaughterhouses across the U.S. only to leave as cuts of meat or whole carcasses on refrigerator trucks, and as byproducts such as bones, blood, and inedible ...
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