Kill Floor Hogs

This video summarizes their findings and shows how the process looks from the inside.

Kill floor hogs.

Preslaughter handling is a major concern to the livestock industry especially the pork industry. Try to follow the route from the truck to the stunning. All rights belong to food inc. This is how many pig farms kill unwanted baby pigs.

Calf slaughter the killing of baby cows. They can t see anything. During 2015 animal liberation victoria and animal liberation carried out an undercover investigation inside three pig slaughterhouses in victoria australia. A slaughterhouse also called abattoir ˈ æ b ə t w ɑːr is a facility where animals are slaughtered most often though not always to provide food for humans slaughterhouses supply meat which then becomes the responsibility of a packaging facility.

For the next half hour or so maddy poured over the kill floor snapping photos of everything only pausing when the slaughterman brought a new pig onto the floor to kill. Going to work on the kill floor was like walking into the pit of hell. The footage may shock you but people should be aware what they pay for when they buy meat. Department of natural resources.

Jim wood the owner of palmetto creek farms gave me the rundown. The process was described to me before i walked onto the kill floor. In denmark the handling of pigs at the slaughterhouse is optimised with respect for the animal. Preslaughter handling stunning and slaughtering.

There s nothing to hear. Viewer discretion is advised i do not own this video. The slaughter of livestock involves three distinct stages. Meat processing meat processing livestock slaughter procedures.

To get a sense of what conditions are like on the killing floor where 32 000 hogs are slaughtered each day. The kill floor scene with english cap. In the united states the humane treatment of animals during each of these stages is required by the humane slaughter act. Slaughterhouses that produce meat that is not intended to be eaten by humans are sometimes referred to as knacker s yards or.

In south carolina hunters kill about 30 000 wild hogs annually but more than 150 000 feral pigs still live in the palmetto state according to the s c. Rather than turn away for the killing since she couldn t photograph it she watched intently as the slaughterman placed the captive bolt gun against the pig s forehead and activated it.