Originally Posted by Mama26kids
quote from the website
"Horses are routinely hit and beaten with prods to force them into a steel chute where an employee stands with a captive bolt pistol (the captive bolt was designed for cattle not horses) aimed directly at the horse's face. As the shooter tries to aim the pistol at the horse's moving forehead (horses are highly intelligent and move their heads instinctively away), the shooter often misses, thereby causing injury to other parts of the face, retries multiple times, and while still alive, the horse is then moved out of the 'stun box' and a chain is placed around its back leg and the injured horse is hung breathing and alive upsidedown by its one leg."
I think most people would be appalled by this, and for meat eaters, do you really want to eat something that has died in that manner? Read about adrenaline being released into the animals system when it dies under stress, just like hormones, chemicals etc, that gets absorbed into the human system when they eat that meat.
The bolded part is so far off base it's not even funny. They do NOT aim the captive bolt(which IS an approved, HUMANE method of euthanasia) at the FACE. There is a proper spot to kill a horse with a gun or captive bolt, and most of the people hit it right on the mark. There are some misses, of course. But the suffering is ended quickly. They are also not hung alive, once an animal(or human, for that matter)is brain dead all following bodily functions(any "breathing", attempting to "whinny", leg movements, etc.) are all nerve reflexes. The animal is DEAD. It cannot feel any pain, emotional or physical.
I am ALL for humane slaughter. After the animal is gone, the body is just a shell. Might as well use what we can from it and not WASTE like we humans are so apt to do.