Humane harvesting
Jeff Lines
The livestock industry needs to kill animals - this is an inevitable part of farming. In a society increasingly at arm’s length Europe that allows us to kill livestock as long as welfare of the animals and for the qualms of the public.
the last 20 years have seen a huge increase in interest. This has resulted in new developments - ments.
The trend of increased concern and improving methods has long been seen in other parts of and poultry there has been the gradual but constant development of new and improved
The last 15 years have seen major changes in the poultry industry and recently yet another pushing the EU to allow its use in Europe.
- ing for ways to develop the technique further. humane slaughter techniques for poultry and
- ods developed only for the convenience of the farmer through a wide and electric stunning are the norm.
or are deformed or they enter the machine the wrong way around.
further into the electric stunning machine or they can start to recover
poor crowding techniques can cause deaths. We know that brails and
hours to recover.
This is part of the deal we have with society and it is increasingly what