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The Times sticks the boot in to farm animal welfare
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<blockquote data-quote="Suffolk Serf" data-source="post: 7541257" data-attributes="member: 636"><p>Red Tractor wants to replace blunt trauma with the use of a turkey stunners. Doubtless the stunner would have to be kept under lock and key in a safe place. </p><p>A typical scenario sometimes found on an outdoor unit such as mine is finding a freshly born litter where the sow has accidentally trod on one of her piglets (much less likely to happen with a farrowing crate, but they are "bad" apparently) and the poor little thing has its intestines hanging out. </p><p>What is a compassionate stockman to do? Go and get the stunner from its safe place, which might involve a ten minute journey to fetch the implement? during which time the squealing piglet has caused the sow distress and she might well have stood up and been circling in her hut, standing on more piglets.</p><p>Or should he pick up the piglet, grasp it by its hindlegs and quickly and efficiently swing the piglet against a hard surface, killing it in one blow?</p><p>Of course nowadays before that operation has to be preceded by a quick look around to ensure that nobody is filming/that there are no hidden cameras.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Suffolk Serf, post: 7541257, member: 636"] Red Tractor wants to replace blunt trauma with the use of a turkey stunners. Doubtless the stunner would have to be kept under lock and key in a safe place. A typical scenario sometimes found on an outdoor unit such as mine is finding a freshly born litter where the sow has accidentally trod on one of her piglets (much less likely to happen with a farrowing crate, but they are "bad" apparently) and the poor little thing has its intestines hanging out. What is a compassionate stockman to do? Go and get the stunner from its safe place, which might involve a ten minute journey to fetch the implement? during which time the squealing piglet has caused the sow distress and she might well have stood up and been circling in her hut, standing on more piglets. Or should he pick up the piglet, grasp it by its hindlegs and quickly and efficiently swing the piglet against a hard surface, killing it in one blow? Of course nowadays before that operation has to be preceded by a quick look around to ensure that nobody is filming/that there are no hidden cameras. [/QUOTE]
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