The very last step of an animal’s life. The shortest, and the most cruel as well. From a “life” made of chronic sufferings in the farm, to the indescribable pain in the “dismantling chains” of the slaughterhouse. Each butcher has to kill hundreds of animals every day, and the boredom an attention lacks due to a repetitive mechanical job cause mistakes and more pain for the animals.
Before the cattle bleed to death by cutting in their jugular, they get stunned with a gunshot in their head, making them unconscious. But this stunning method doesn’t often work and the animals get split up while still alive and in consciousness.
Pigs get stunned with electric shocks before being slaughtered, but they sometimes come round during the first steps of slaughtering.
Poultry get stunned with electric shocks too, then dipped in boiling water pools to get rid of the feathers and finally decapitated. Also for them the stunning methods don’t always work.
Male chicks are totally useless for egg farms, so they get mashed alive with specific machines, or they simply get stifled in special gas chambers.
