Actually, bleeding out IS a humane way to kill. I avoid Kosher food as well.
Appreciate your opinion but respectfully beg to differ with mine. Kosher prevents anything happening to the animals prior to bleed out so the animals are not rendered insensible to pain - I can't figure out how being squeezed into a machine, turned upside down, in a room filled with the smell of death, having your throat cut from ear to ear, having it then ripped out, having the machine tip you back upright and throw you out of it as you stagger in absolute panic gasping for your last breath....sorry - can't figure for the life of me how that can be humane. Kosher animals go through this without the benefit of having their pain centers destroyed first. The whole point of kosher is that the animal hasn't been "touched" prior to it being torchered.
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Slaughter of animals in meat industry
Exsanguination is used as a method of slaughter where, before the incision is made, the animal, depending on species, is rendered insensible to pain by various methods, including captive bolt, electricity or chemical.
If used alone as a method of slaughter, without prior sedation, stunning or anesthetic, this method of slaughter causes a high degree of anxiety and should not be used alone.[1] The captive bolt is placed against the skull of the animal, and penetrates to cause tissue destruction in the brain incapacitating the animal so that the procedure may take place. Electricity is used mostly in porcine and chemical in poultry.
While the animal is incapacitated, a knife is fully inserted through the skin just behind the point of the jaw and below the neck bones. From this position, the knife is drawn forward severing the jugular vein, carotid artery, and trachea. Properly performed, blood should flow freely with death occurring within a few minutes.
Kosher animals are killed without the benefit of "unawareness" and are fully awake and alert as they die.
Glad you avoid kosher too
