Animal Slaughter
Livestock: from Stable to Table
Animal slaughter is a necessary evil, but unfortunately with the way it is carried out it is repulsive. For as long as recorded history mankind has hunted animals for survival and that practice continues today. The main use for an animal is for food; this is the oldest and the most universal form of an animal. With advancements of the world’s civilization, animals were traded at markets and the owner would receive a payment for the animal’s value. This process continues today. Animals are sold for larger sums to corporations that will then send the animal to a slaughterhouse and sell the meat to a distributer. Here customers purchase the meat at inflated prices. Around the globe meat from livestock animals is a popular item to add to one’s plate for any meal. One could have beef, lamb, pork, or even horse, but how does this animal get from a place it once thought was it’s home to the customer’s table. The amount of stress the animal goes through before the slaughter process is astonishing. Horses that are slaughtered regularly come from the racetrack where they were administered drugs before running a race.
These drugs are harmful to humans if consumed. The health of an animal while it is living in its pen, cramped with many of its own breed is heartbreaking to see. The World
Organization for Animal Health has helped established new regulations for slaughter, transportation and killing animals for disease control.
The World Organization for Animal Health, also known as OIE, has developed basic standards that developed and developing countries now agree on. In addition to
OIE’s standards, each country has specific laws and standards of their own. OIE designed the five basic standards. “One, the percentage of animals stunned on the first attempt.
Two, percentage rendered insensible prior to hoisting. Three, percentage that vocalize
(moo, bellow, or squeal) during movement up the race and in the stunning box.
Animal slaughter is a necessary evil, but unfortunately with the way it is carried out it is repulsive. For as long as recorded history mankind has hunted animals for survival and that practice continues today. The main use for an animal is for food; this is the oldest and the most universal form of an animal. With advancements of the world’s civilization, animals were traded at markets and the owner would receive a payment for the animal’s value. This process continues today. Animals are sold for larger sums to corporations that will then send the animal to a slaughterhouse and sell the meat to a distributer. Here customers purchase the meat at inflated prices. Around the globe meat from livestock animals is a popular item to add to one’s plate for any meal. One could have beef, lamb, pork, or even horse, but how does this animal get from a place it once thought was it’s home to the customer’s table. The amount of stress the animal goes through before the slaughter process is astonishing. Horses that are slaughtered regularly come from the racetrack where they were administered drugs before running a race.
These drugs are harmful to humans if consumed. The health of an animal while it is living in its pen, cramped with many of its own breed is heartbreaking to see. The World
Organization for Animal Health has helped established new regulations for slaughter, transportation and killing animals for disease control.
The World Organization for Animal Health, also known as OIE, has developed basic standards that developed and developing countries now agree on. In addition to
OIE’s standards, each country has specific laws and standards of their own. OIE designed the five basic standards. “One, the percentage of animals stunned on the first attempt.
Two, percentage rendered insensible prior to hoisting. Three, percentage that vocalize
(moo, bellow, or squeal) during movement up the race and in the stunning box.