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The horror of the slaughterhouse, daily issues, ARD 29.03.10

It can not be slaughtered without great suffering ...

http://www.tagesthemen.de/inland/tierqualen100.html
On average, every German eats about 60 kilograms of meat per year. Ensure that animals must be slaughtered, is clear. This is supposed to happen as possible without pain. But experts raise the charge that many animals suffer worst torments.

By Patrick Hünerfeld, SWR

The veterinarian Klaus Troeger nearly every slaughterhouse in Germany and many others known in Europe and elsewhere in the world. He heads the state-owned Max Rubner Institute for Safety and Quality of Meat [http://www.mri.bund.de/de/institute/sicherheit-und-qualitaet-bei-fleisch.html]. His major theme is the animal welfare at slaughter.
"If you wanted to now weigh the welfare of the whole meat production chain, from agriculture to transportation to slaughter, it is my impression that at slaughter, the largest deficits . Exist "
meat supply center in Mannheim, a showcase slaughterhouse.. The animals are anesthetized with CO2 No eye reflexes, no pain despite production line, the trigger enough time to bled the animals and let it die But here are also only 180 pigs per hour slaughtered. . In a highly industrialized slaughterhouse that is different.
"We now have slaughter rate of more than 1,500 pigs per hour on a line. You can imagine, for example, how much time the trigger has to be stab a pig animal friendly, these are little more than 2 seconds. When the great vessels missed, what with the pace of battle may well be the case once, or even sometimes overlooks an animal and the animal does not stings, then the animals are very quickly after the slaughter awake again. And it's definitely not a control system today, these animals will be saved from the scald in the subsequent brewing. And I guess that is not completely acceptable. "
die Up to 1% of slaughter pigs only during scalding, Klaus Troeger estimated according to his investigations. Mathematically, be with us, therefore annual tortured more than 500,000 animals unnecessarily.
For cattle, the thing no better. The decades are stunned with a captive bolt. That's possible but not often, a bovine brain is only big oranges. Such misses it is up to 7% of the animals Sun Tröger. Just calculate the over 200,000 animals are in the year. ..
"However, such animals are then transported are deposited limbs, the animal is a creature in these plants no longer perceived I think that there, the things to get there every day sees that a certain blunting occurred -. And that from the public here and no pressure is applied, because the general public, consumers, these states do not know. " [...]
would be able to fix the head, which excludes almost misses.
would be technically possible to automatically check whether the animals are dead - before the Scalding.
but are not required such measures. Whether the slaughterhouses voluntarily change anything? Probably not, as long as we look only meat eaters that our steak is tough and cheap.