SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 3944, 29 May 1913, Page 6

SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS.

■ i ; ■ I . • WO THE EmtOH. t Sir, —Mr. Rowell's letter in your issue of the 22nd inst., giving his personal observations of the two methods of pithing and stunning appear but two extreme instances. Ho says in the pithing example that the man was a.“past-master,” but in the stunning example he does not say what tho man was, theforb wo must assume him a bungling ‘'apprentice.” If is the inexpert in either method that causes the cruel unnecessary suffering in the necessary killing of the animals for human consumption. Tho barbarous instance related by Mr Howell could only possibly have occurred for. three reasons: (1) No proper crush pens; (2) a .light weight hammer; (3) a. bungling beginner, otherwise .it seems an impossibility such mutilation as lie describes could have occurred. The concensus of export experience and evidence is that both upon humane and mercantile grounds stunning is by far the most preferable method, more rapid and time saving, also a hotter quality of meat results. The P C.A. Societies desire only to minimise suffering to the dumb animals and the in futheranoo of this humane object I 'would ask Mr Rournll to furnish the Society or myself until tiie name of the abattoir or slaughteryard where the stunning case ho refers to took place, as it is only right tho cause should be officially inquired into. —T am, etc., T. W. PORTER, President S.P.C.A. Wellington, May 20.