[DemolitionRed]

I'm in two minds here. I ran a livery yard for some years and I had the unfortunate job of standing with some clients horses that needed to be euthanized. This could be done by lethal injection and the other is by a humane killer (dead bolt pistol). The second is very traumatic for the person standing with the horse but its quick, its clean and on the three occasions I was witness to it, the horse didn't show any fear or have any notion of what was about to happen.

The problem I have with slaughter houses is not the method of death but the smell of adrenalin those animals must smell when entering. That animals, especially chickens, can see what's happening to the line in front of them. Someone who once worked in the 'killing room' of a slaughter house told me, as the animal enters that room it will always defacate from fear.

But then I look at some countries in the far east who skin snakes alive and throw cats alive into boiling pots of water whilst other cats in crowded cages watch on. There are some heinous methods of slaughter and there are some kinder methods of slaughter, just as there are some kinder methods of animal husbandry and some horrific methods such as veal crates, battery hens and foie gras geese.