SLAUGHTERING OF SHEEP
Sir, —Will a spokesman for the meat companies please describe the presentday method of slaughtering sheep? Is it the most humane method known today? On what do the apprentice slaughtermen practice while learning to kill sheep?—Yours, etc., RICHARD JACKSON. March 30, 1953. [When this letter was referred to the general manager of a frozen meat company he said, “Clause 6 of the Slaughter of Stock Regulations. 1951, reads: No person shall slaughter any sheep or lamb in any abattoir or meat export slaughterhouse unless it is so slaughtered that the animal is instantaneously killed by the operation of severance of the blood vessels of the neck and severance of the spinal cord. Commenting on the second question, he said. “A slaughterman engaged in killing sheep is always a man who has had experience in knife work on the killing board.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27011, 10 April 1953, Page 3
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