how are cows and other farm animals slaughtered? do they get a needle to knock em out?

Answer 1

Sadly many don't make it to the bullet gun which only stuns the vast majority.
As many animals are slaughtered one after the other, some slip and fall.
To see a cow slip and fall spreadeagled on the climb to slaughter would break your heart.
Cattle prods are then used to get these animals moving again in extreme agony so the slaughter process continues.
Am sorry to be graphic, however cows who's legs go sideways on a slippery surface should not be made to continue walking to their death, which they smell, trust me.
I have been a vegetarian for a long time......

Answer 2

Brutally, the animals cant be fully dead in order to bleed. A hammer to the forehead and then starting the slashing, or a bullet to the forehead and then start slicing as soon as the animal hits the floor. Scalding a live for hogs so that the hair can be removed easier. Ive seen chickens have their heads wrung off and their throats cut, but I don't know the mass killing method of poultry. I watched a slaughter of a cow from the time it was led into the slaughter house until the sides of beef were hung, and that was about 46 years ago, I have never touched meat, fish or poultry since, that was when I was 5.

Answer 3

Chickens: Are snapped leg first into a metal bracket, they hang upseide down and are sped down a conveyor belt with a blade that is at approx neck level, inforuntately not all of the chickens necks get slit so many end up in the boiling water vat alive. After the boiling water vat they are gutted, feathered and they move onto the processing portion of the plant.
Cows: Also snapped leg first upside down into a metal bracket. They are supposed to be stunned but often it is not enough to knock them out, their throats are slit, the blood is collected and sold to companies to be put into high protein pellets and animal/pet foods. After the cows are moved on into the porcessing portion of the plant.
Pigs: Pigs are done in the same manner as cows (on some smaller farms they will shoot the pig in the head beside it's ear with a bolt gun. The pig does not die immediately from this and you can watch them try to crwl away and hear them squealing in agony.
Processing plants: Many processing plants have immigration workers and low income workers with little to no education. The are often cited by USDA inspectors for using their sterilizers (supposed to be used to sterilize their blades) to cook bite sized pieces of meat. This renders the sterilizers inefective. Also USDA inspectors will cite plants for workers dropping meat on the floor them putting it back on the belt, spilling the insides of the intestines and bowels on the meat (this causes salmonella and e-coli infection which is why we have to cook meat to a certain temperature or get sick). The plants are allowed a certain number of violations before they fail inspection so don't think this poorly treated, infected meat doesn't make it to your dinner table.
For proof you can read the International Meat Crisis (it cites USDA inspections and reports that you can freely look up to prove their statements) or you can look up all the USDA reports online but they are lengthy and hard to find the information you are looking for not to mention tiresome to go through.
PETA is a source largely to be scorned and not trusted. They use scare tactics and outright lies to further their campaigns. Anyone with an iota of intelligence can disprove most of their claims however the treatment of animals and factory farms and the way the meat is treated before it ends up on your plate are unfortunately, true.

Answer 4

on the farm cows are shot in the head, chickens heads are chopped off with an axe. Usually a bullet to the back of the head for large animals.
In slaughter houses it is much worse. Cows are hit in the head with a killing hammer. Many don't die and are butcherd alive.

Answer 5

I have heard both electricity and some powered hammer-like blow. Pigs can be knocked out with carbon dioxide.

You could not use a needle because whatever chemical you used on the animals would get into their meat.

The Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 requires that animals be stunned before killing.

Answer 6

No, that would put drugs in the meat.

They usually get a knife across the neck. Sometimes an electric shock first.

God made a hell of an ecosystem didn't he? Ever see a lion give a gazelle a needle before ripping its throat out.

Neither have I

-Dio

Answer 7

No, sorry NO needle. Electric shock, hung upside down, throat slit & left to bleed out, slit down the middle of the belly, remove intestines & organs, & proceed with the processing & taking of the skin, then carve up the rest into pieces, cool, package, & ship! I think I got it all....ah, memories from the slaughter house! On the farm, we would just slit their throats & let them bleed out (while they screamed & gurgled). I am a vegetarian now. Can you guess why?

Answer 8

Needles are not used at all. People want to eat that cow. A poisoned cow is not safe to consume even cooked.

I have heard of axes, guns, and just now precision electrocution.

Again, that meat is meant to be eaten. Sick and poisoned animals are not safe to be eaten. I would not even eat an abused or under-fed animal because of adverse health effects on the animal.

Answer 9

One method I have heard of is called the bolt gun where a metal spike is shot in between the eyes of the beast. It is retractable and is able to be used over and over again and therefore is more cost efficient than bullets etc. They usually hire a "patter" to calm the beast prior to slaughter as high adrenalin level cause the meat to be tougher apparrently. Thank GOD I'm vego!!

Answer 10

I've been to one of those places and they hang out the cow by the rear legs and cut the main artery in the neck and let it bleed to death and they do that with most of the animals, to get rid of the blood, no needles