Grandin Temple - The Slaughter of Farmed Animals

The Slaughter of Farmed Animals

Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare

The Slaughter of Farmed Animals

Practical Ways of Enhancing Animal Welfare

Edited by

Temple Grandin

Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, USA

and

Michael Cockram

Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Grandin, Temple, editor.

Title: The slaughter of farmed animals : practical ways of enhancing animal welfare / edited by Temple Grandin and Michael Cockram.

Description: wallingford, Oxfordshire ; Boston : CABI, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: From the ethics of slaughtering farmed livestock to the practical guidelines that must be put in place to maximise animal welfare, this book combines scientific evidence with down-to-earth practical advice for government and private industry managers, veterinarians and animal welfare practitioners-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019046143 (print) | LCCN 2019046144 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789240573 (paperback) | ISBN 9781789240580 (ebook) | ISBN 9781789240597 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects. | Meat animals--Moral and ethical aspects. | Animal industry--Moral and ethical aspects.

Classification: LCC HV4757 .S53 2020 (print) | LCC HV4757 (ebook) | DDC 179/.3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046143

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019046144

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ISBN-13:

9781789240573 (paperback)

9781789240580 (ePDF)

9781789240597 (ePub)

Commissioning Editor: Caroline Makepeace

Editorial Assistant: Lauren Davies

Production Editor: Shankari Wilford

Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India

Printed and bound in the UK by Severn, Gloucester

Contents

Temple Grandin

Michael Cockram

Temple Grandin

Michael Cockram

Lily N. Edwards-Callaway and Helen C. Kline

Temple Grandin

Charlotte (Lotta) Berg and Mohan Raj

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Faith Baier and Dennis Willson

Temple Grandin and Erika Voogd

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

E.M. Claudia Terlouw

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin and Michael Cockram

Michael Cockram

Temple Grandin

Peter Singer

Frdric Leroy, Miki Ben-Dor and Frank M. Mitloehner

Bernard E. Rollin

Andy Lamey

Temple Grandin

Faith Baier, Department of Dairy Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Email:

Miki Ben-Dor, Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Tel Aviv University (TAU), Tel Aviv, Israel. Email:

Charlotte (Lotta) Berg, Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden. Email:

Michael Cockram, Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre, Dept. of Health Management, Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. Email:

Lily N. Edwards-Callaway, Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Email:

Temple Grandin, Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Email:

Helen Kline, JBS Swift, Tolleson, Arizona, USA. Email:

Andy Lamey, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, California, USA. Email:

Frdric Leroy, Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Email:

Frank Mitloehner, Department of Animal Science, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA. Email:

Mohan Raj, Formerly Reader in Animal Welfare, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, UK. Email:

Bernard Rollin, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Email:

Peter Singer, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University. Email:

Claudia Terlouw, Clermont Auvergne University, INRAE, VetAgro Sup, UMR Herbivores, F-63122 Saint-Gens-Champanelle, France. Email:

Erika Voogd, Voogd Consulting, 28 West 225 Trieste Lane, West Chicago, Illinois, USA. Email:

Dennis Willson, Department of Animal Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Email:

This book provides both practical information that can be used in commercial abattoirs and in-depth reviews of scientific research on animal welfare. The two editors, Temple Grandin and Michael Cockram, provide different perspectives. Dr Grandin provides practical applied information that can be immediately put to use. Dr Cockrams chapters contain extensive literature reviews on transport, legislation, the condition of livestock and poultry that arrive at the abattoir, and on-farm welfare problems that can be assessed at the slaughter plant. Dr Grandin has chapters on stunning methods for livestock and poultry, determining unconsciousness, design of stun boxes and lairages, handling of animals, methods to prevent bruises, and the effects of pre-slaughter handling on meat quality. Other topics that are covered are assessment of animal welfare in slaughter plants and non-stunned religious slaughter. For a true international perspective, additional invited authors from Belgium, France, Sweden and the UK provide important research information on the welfare of livestock and poultry during stunning and slaughter. There is a comprehensive chapter on determining whether or not an animal is conscious. Five short chapters at the end of the book discuss the ethics of eating meat. It is important for the readers to understand differing viewpoints. This book will be especially useful for animal welfare officers in meat plants, veterinarians, meat scientists, regulatory officials, abattoir managers and students interested in animal welfare.

Our book on animal welfare at slaughter is aimed at abattoir managers, welfare officers, government regulators and supervisors of retail food supply chains. Retailers are increasingly enforcing private standards for their suppliers. Guidance from this book will assist quality assurance personnel, veterinarians and managers who are responsible for maintaining good animal welfare. It will also be a valuable text for students interested in either animal welfare or meat science. There is a major emphasis on cattle, pigs, sheep and broiler chickens. Information will also be included on other mammals and poultry.