HUMANE METHODS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 16

HUMANE METHODS

SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS

For many years past the methods of slaughtering in freezing Avorks and abattoirs have, engaged the attention of the society, sa*ys the annual report of the Wellington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, presented at the annual meeting last night, and marked progress in this direction was reported during the year, with the result that more humane methods have been adopted at several of the works. The president of the society (Colonel Mitchell) visited a freezing works where cattle were being stunned with a humane killer, and pigs with an electrical stunning apparatus, both of which methods are most humane, and as a result the society has advocated their adoption throughout the Dominion. These methods are being used so satisfactorily that there is no reason why they should not be immediately adopted by all freezing works. It might be necessary in some of the establishments to make alterations to the pens, but the cost would not be very great and in the interests of the humane slaughtering of animals would be well worth while. In connection with the Jewish method of slaughtering, after repeated requests from the committee, the City Council was •at present considering the question of installing a Weinbcrg pen, which would considerably lessen the cruelty involved by the usn of the present method.

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