The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn back the curtain on the animal and human suffering caused by extremely fast slaughter line speeds. Some chicken slaughterhouses are allowed to slaughter up to 175 birds per minute and some pig slaughterhouses have no limit on how fast they can move the slaughter line. Animals are at greater risk […]
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Humane Slaughter Violation at Iowa Plant Increases Concerns about Extreme-Speed Slaughter
The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, a federal law dating back to 1958, requires that pigs and some other types of farm animals are “rendered insensible to pain” prior to slaughter. On September 1, 2020, a slaughterhouse in Ottumwa, Iowa, sent a pig into a tank of scalding hot water while the pig was still […]