Replies to post #51954 on Sino Agro Food Inc (fka SIAF)

[RealDutch]

Well, were they stunned? Come on... you were there.

http://modernfarmer.com/2013/04/this-is-what-humane-slaughter-looks-like-is-it-good-enough/
Today, Dr. Grandin is a best-selling author, and her Animal Welfare Audit is the standard in the industry. Half of the cattle in the United States and Canada are now handled by equipment Grandin designed. Some of the nation’s largest beef servers and suppliers— McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, Cargill, Tyson— pass the points of her audit: at least 95 percent of animals stunned on the first shot (usually with a captive-bolt gun that shoots a steel bolt into the head). No more than 1 percent falling. No more than 3 percent mooing. No more than 25 percent being hit with an electric prod. At this point, she says, “You can take someone right to the stunner line at one of the biggest slaughterhouses in the world,” and they’ll approve of what they see.

[Emilez]

we saw 3 live cows hanging by one leg each, clearly terrified and agitated before their throats were slit. I can hardly write about it without feeling sick and sad again.

So SIAF is practicing the highly immoral and barbaric art of halal slaughter? Or maybe they are just using that slaughter method without religious reasons. Well I guess I can live with it although I don't like it that much.