Temple Grandin Helps U.S. Chicken Companies Switch To Gas Killing
Written by Vegetarian Star on October 22nd, 2010 in Animal Issues, Business, Food & Drink.
Temple Grandin, a scientist who’s contributed to reducing stress on slaughter animals, has consulted with two U.S chicken companies who worked with a business, Anglia Autoflow, that designed a system to allow them to kill chickens using carbon dioxide, considered a more humane alternative to electrical stunning used by most American chicken producers.
Bell & Evans in Pennsylvania and Mary’s Chickens in California are making the switch to putting chickens to sleep using the gas before they are turned upside down to have their throats slit and will have the first such chickens slaughtered available for purchase in April and June, respectively.
“Birds don’t like being hung upside down,” Grandin said. “They get really stressed out by that.”
Bell & Evans produces the largest of amount birds per week, with 840,000 that are distributed nationwide. Mary’s processes about 200,000 per week.
Whether or not customers will quickly learn about this technology that’s been used in Britain and Europe is unknown, as companies hate to admit just how food gets to your plate and are sure customers would rather be spared the details.
In the New York Times, Marc Cooper, a senior scientific manager in the farm animals department of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in London said,”People don’t want to know too much. It’s hard to sell humane killing as a concept.”
It’s a tough job, but until more people go vegetarian, there’s got to be a salesperson who will take on the task.
Photo: PR Photos
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October 24th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
There is no such thing as “humane killing”. That is an oxymoron. Killing is always wrong just like rape is always wrong and slavery is always wrong. There is no middle ground in those issues. How would it be humane to take the life from an animal that wanted to live? It doesn’t matter how you kill the animal, you are being cruel by taking its life for something as stupid as taste. Going vegan is the only way to prevent cruelty to animals and to be truly compassionate.