The Next Time You Eat Chicken
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It stuns them so they don't feel the cut to the throat. They're not bolted to be killed; they are bolted to be stunned so they're not aware of having their throats split open. They are ultimately and technically bled to death.
Would you rather i shot you in the head or cut your throat?
it destroys the hemisphears, so basically instant brain death.
Ok, what would you rather?
1) Have your throat slit, feel the cut across your entire neck and windpipe and be fully aware of it all, including the loss of blood and dizzyness associated
or
2) Be bolted to the head (without realising it), having no pain registered and not be aware of being cut and bled to death?
Easy choice to be honest.
You slit the throat while only the brain stem is alive (the animal is dead at this point and only has heart and lung etc function) as this drains the blood with the advantage of the heart beating to help.
It takes hours to bleed to death, so proiduction would be imposoble, and i'd rather be shot in the head than have my wrists cut.
Have you ever felt shock from an injury radiation? Trust me quick death > feeling sick dizzy and wanting more than anything to just vomit and curl up in a ball.
You see lots of vet's animal welfare people, farmers, and slaughters got together and decided on guidlines that where both efficent and the least distressing to the animal.
You sitting there with no experiance of what bleeding to death from a large cut is like is not really a good argument.
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Not all bolt guns penetrate. In fact, it is uncommon to use penetrating bolt guns in the UK. The bolt guns most of the slaughtermen use in this country deliver a blow to the head/base of the neck/forehead strong enough to render them unconscious.
Neither, blood drained while under anaesthesia.
The brain will still experience something though and i doubt it will be nice.
So completly unfit for consumption?
I'd still rather be shot than knocked out and then wrists slit.
Not the concius part, and there is no feeling in the brain.
Well, tests indicate that the brain has little to no activity after stunning in this way. I am not sure what tests you have to provoke your doubts, but I'd like to hear of them.
When i looked last time one of these threads came up I'm sure the guidline said the bolt had to enter and destroy the brain.
Although i think they where welsh guidlines but it shouldn;t make too much difference.
whacking thier neck would surely be a stupid idea as you're risking damaging the brainstem and thus the heart function?
So completly unfit for consumption?
I'd still rather be shot than knocked out and then wrists slit.
Really? I thought you just pass out with little suffering though, ill be honest i don't know for sure but its the impression i got?
All animals slaughtered for pharmaceuticals can't have the bolt penetrate. With the panic over mad cow disease, the non-penetrating bolt gun became much more popular because the place where the animal is bolted is not at all sterile, whereas where they are hung is.
Well i mean its not guaranteed to work every time is it?
Anyway its not really a nice topic to talk about, i would just like to see meat factorys producing it without the animal or any nervous system at all, hopefully they'll get these kind of advances soon.
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Can't sell meat full of anestetic.
No with blood loss first you would go into shock which is ****ing horrible, like beeing really really ill, then you'll pass out some time later and then die a lot later, but you'll still have a lot of blood left which will coagulate and ruin the meat.
Also agaisnt popular belief drowning is not a peaceful way to go.
Well this is animals for meat? not pharmecuticals?
and it was pigs/sheep i looked up i think, so thats probbably why.