Ban Development of Inhumane Slaughter Devices

The United Kingdom was the first country in the world to implement laws protecting animals. In 1822 an Act to Prevent the Cruel and Improper Treatment of Cattle was passed by Parliament.

Warm-blooded animals (this includes livestock) feel pain and the emotion of fear. In particular mammals, including food animals of this group, have brain structures that enable them to feel fear and suffering from pain, and it is likely that they suffer pain in the same way as humans. Fear and pain are very strong causes of stress in livestock and stress affects the quality of meat obtained from this livestock. When animals are subjected to unusual conditions or circumstances due to the wilful actions of people, it is people’s moral responsibility to ensure that the welfare of these animals is cared for and that they do not suffer unnecessary discomfort, stress or injury.

Legal machinary is used to Kill, Strip & Process animal meat & fur. some of these devices include the following from "Approved Designs Ltd"  http://adluk.net/   'Graphic content'

• Auto Hock Cutter
• Brisket Roller
• Cattle Shooting Box
• Combi 300
• Compact Hide Puller
• Dehairer
• Eco 300
• Final Puller
• Gut Machines
• Leg Spreader
• Punch Arm
• Re-Inverter
• Restrainer
• Rise & Fall Platform
• Shoulder Puller

Stunning - when performed correctly, causes an animal to lose consciousness, so the animal can’t feel pain. The law states that, with few exemptions, all animals must be stunned before ‘sticking’ is carried out.  

Sticking - is when an animal’s throat is cut, using a very sharp knife, severing the major blood vessels in its neck/chest that supply the brain, ensuring rapid blood loss and therefore death.

Penetrating captive bolt - used on cattle, sheep and some pigs. A gun fires a metal bolt into the brain of the animal causing the animal to lose consciousness immediately.

Electrical - used on sheep, calves and pigs. An electrical current is passed through the animal’s brain via a large pair of tongs, causing temporary loss of consciousness. Some systems also pass the current through the heart, so the animal is not just stunned but also killed.

After stunning the animal is shackled by a hind leg and hoisted above the ground and the slaughterperson sticks the animal.

Birds are hung upside down by their legs on metal shackles along a moving conveyor belt. 

They move along the production line to a stunning water bath; when the bird’s head makes contact with the water, an electrical circuit between the water bath and shackle is completed, which stuns the bird. 

The conveyor belt then moves the birds to a mechanical neck cutter, which cuts the major blood vessels in the neck.

http://www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/farm/slaughter/factfile