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Compassionate slaughter of animals
Peter Stevenson
Compassion in World Farming
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Arrival at the slaughterhouse: unloading• Often no ramps are used to unload animals, forcing them to jump, fall or be
thrown off
No ramp: the two men pushed and pulled the camel until it fell off the truck to the ground
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The camel is then draggedinto the slaughterhouse
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Ramp too steep and no side-protection
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Moving animals in the slaughterhouse
Cattle are often beaten with sticks or poles to force themto move - this is unacceptable
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This animal is beaten so hard that it collapses
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In Lebanon sheep are dragged by rear leg to slaughter point – this is a common practice in many slaughterhouses
At slaughter point animals are thrownon their back in readiness for throat cutting
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In Egypt cattle are beaten on the head with a pole. It can take several blows before the animal is so dazed that it falls to the ground when its throat is cut.
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In Egypt the leg tendons of cattle are often slashed to control the animals
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In Egypt cattle’s eyes are sometimes gouged tocontrol them
Ismailia, Egypt: live animal withstabbed eyes and cut legtendons
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In Lebanon cattle are suspended from a rear leg inreadiness for throat cut
These two cattle were leftsuspended for over an hourbefore their throats were cut
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In Turkey cattle aresuspended for throatcutting
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Sokhna, Egypt: Conscious animal being inverted in readiness for throat cut
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West Bank: After throat cutting, but before the animals lose consciousness they are dropped out of the box, on top of the bodies of other (still conscious) animals
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Do not start any procedures on the animal until it is dead
• Considerable time gap between throat cut and death
• Do not start any procedures (e.g. pumping air between sheep’s body & its fleece) after the throat cut until the absence of signs of life has been verified
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Do not start any procedures on the animal until it is dead
Sokhna, Egypt: animal hoisted after throat cut while it is stillconscious
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Some slaughtermen do not perform a proper full cut across the throat. Instead they simply stab the knife into the neck. Even after several such stabs, the animals remain standing on all four legs while they slowly bleed from a small hole in the throat. Eventually – sometimes minutes after the first stab - the animals collapse to the ground.
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Suffering when throat is cut
• Cutting throat of conscious animal causes extreme pain:– during throat cut– in the period between throat cut and loss of consciousness
• European Food Safety Authority (EFSA): “The rapid decrease in blood pressure which follows the blood loss is readily detected by the conscious animal and elicits fear and panic.
• Poor welfare also results when conscious animals inhale blood because of bleeding into the trachea [windpipe]”
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How long does it take after throat cut for animal to lose ability to feel pain?
• Even if the correct blood vessels are cut it can take 2 minutes for cattle and 20 seconds for sheep to lose sensibility
• If main blood vessels are not severed it can take much longer –– it can take cattle about 5 minutes– it can take sheep 70 seconds to lose sensibility where only one
carotid artery is severed - where only the jugular veins are severed, it can take about 5 minutes
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Cattle: Time in minutes from throat cut to loss of sensibility
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Sheep: time in minutes from throat cut to loss of sensibility
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Stunning prevents the suffering involved in the throat cut and the period between the cut and loss of sensibility
A stun makes the animal instantaneously unconscious. This unconsciousness must last until the throat is cut and the animal dies through loss of blood
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Electrical stunning
• Must be head-only so that animal is alive – but unconscious – at time of throat cut
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Electrical stunning equipment
Electrode position for sheep (front view)
Electrode position for sheep (side view)
© Humane Slaughter Association
Sheep/goats minimum stunning current: 1 Ampminimum application time of stun: 3 seconds
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Head-only electrical stunning of cattle
CattleCattle over 6 months: minimum stunning current: 1.5 ampsCattle under 6 months: minimum stunning current: 1.25 ampsminimum application time of stun: 3 seconds
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Head-only electrical stunning is reversible
• It does not kill, it simply makes the animal unconscious• Sheep begin to recover about 30 seconds after the stun• Cattle begin to recover about 45 seconds after the stun (calves after
about 40 seconds)• Signs of recovery: return of rhythmic breathing
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Vital to have short time gap between stun and throat cut
• Because animals will recover from the stun quite quickly, the time gap between the stun and the throat cut must be as short as possible – the maximum should be 15 seconds
• If the time gap between stunning and throat cutting is too long, the animal may regain consciousness as it bleeds to death
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Non-penetrative captive bolt stunning for cattle
Position for non-penetrativecaptive bolt
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Non-penetrative captive bolt stunning is reversible, so it is vital to keep the time gap between the stun and the throat cut as short as possible – the maximum should be 20 seconds (this is figure in OIE standards)
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Loss of blood not reduced by stunning
• Studies by Dr Haluk Anil and other scientists compared slaughter of sheep and cattle with and without stunning
• Sheep and cattle: bleed out is not adversely affected by stunning, nor improved by neck cutting without stunning
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Beating them
Unacceptable way of restraining cattle
Severing leg tendons
Suspending them
Cattle should be placed in arestraining box
© Temple Grandin
© Eyes on Animals &Animal Welfare Foundation
© Animals Australia
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© FAO
Cattle should be restrained before stunning
Cattle stunning box
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Cattle should be restrained for slaughter without stunning
Small, tame cattle can be held – calmly – while they are slaughteredIn a standing position. But most cattle should be restrained.
© Temple Grandin
If cattle are not restrained, it is difficult to cut throat with one clean cut of the knife
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Correct throat cutting
• Use a sharp knife• Knife should be twice as long as width of neck area to be cut
• Do not sharpen knife in sight of animal• Do not wipe blood off knife on fleece or hide• Essential to sever both carotid arteries & both jugular veins• Failure to do this leads to slower bleed out, slower death &
increased suffering
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