Un-Stunned Slaughter There are a number of small abattoirs in Australia that have an exemption to slaughter animals without stunning them first. This means that animals are fully conscious and experience pain and distress when their throats are cut. Write to your state or territory Primary Industries Minister and demand they remove exemptions for un-stunned slaughter. Australian law dictates that all animals must be stunned so that they are insensible to pain prior to slaughter. However, there are exemptions given to a number of abattoirs to meet a small demand in Australia for religious slaughter (all kosher and some halal products). Fortunately, the vast majority of halal slaughter involves stunning prior to the throat cut. But, some halal and all kosher slaughter is carried out without prior stunning. Cattle must be stunned immediately after the throat cut but other animals, like sheep, goats and chickens, are left to bleed out until they die. Much of the cruelty documented on the Australian live export trade is the result of un-stunned slaughter. On seeing the horrors of the practice, the Australian public, and indeed producers, have overwhelmingly called for mandatory stunning for all exported animals. These few domestic exemptions that still exist in Australia have been used as an excuse not to take this important step.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:07:30 +0000
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