Timeline for What happens when an animal gets spooked on the way to slaughter and refuses to continue?
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| Aug 22, 2021 at 10:54 | comment | added | C.S.Cameron | I think cattle prods were invented to deal with animals that get spooked on the way to slaughter. | |
| Oct 14, 2020 at 16:55 | answer | added | ronak | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 27, 2020 at 8:16 | comment | added | gerrit | In German they call it Weideschlachtung. I only learned about it from the regional news last week, a local authority introduced rules arguing that the animal to be shot should first be separated from the others (so the cow can be killed more quickly in case the first shot fails), but farmers using this slaughter method argued that this rule actually makes it worse for the cows as the separation causes stress. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 8:13 | comment | added | gerrit | Translation: Common is the stunning by bullet shot. The animals are stunned in their regular environment at the meadow — during grazing or when resting — by a shot in the head, and are dying in a very short time due to blood loss. Experience shows that the killing is so sudden for the animals, that they experience no stress at all. And also the rest of the herd responds minimally to the shot with the silenced long-distance weapon. So not at the slaughterhouse, but in the meadow at their own home. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 8:11 | comment | added | gerrit | It's in German, but: Üblich ist die Betäubung per Kugelschuss. Die Tiere werden dabei in gewohnter Umgebung auf der Weide – während sie fressen oder ruhen – durch einen Schuss in den Kopf betäubt und innerhalb kürzester Zeit durch Entbluten getötet. Die Erfahrungen zeigen, dass die Tötung für die Tiere so überraschend kommt, dass sie vorher keinerlei Stress erfahren. Und auch die Herdenmitglieder reagieren nur minimal bis gar nicht auf den Schuss der schallgedämpften Langwaffe. | |
| May 27, 2020 at 6:00 | comment | added | 08915bfe02 | @gerrit That's very interesting, but I can't find anything by searching online; do you have a source? I'd be a little surprised to find there is a dedicated cow sniper perched in a tree outside of the slaughterhouse, just waiting for his moment to shine. | |
| May 26, 2020 at 15:54 | comment | added | gerrit | Apparently some animals are slaughtered by a surprise bullet from a distant sharpshooter, which is supposed to cause less/no stress. | |
| May 26, 2020 at 5:00 | history | asked | 08915bfe02 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |