What is stunning in slaughtering?

The stunning process ensures the animal is unconscious and insensible to pain before being bled out at slaughter. Common stunning methods include electrical stunning, captive-bolt stunning or the use of carbon dioxide gas. Following stunning, the animal is bled and remains unconscious until it dies due to blood loss.

What are the two types of stunning?

There are two types of electric stunning, head only and cardiac arrest stunning, which stops the heart.

What is stunning method?

Stunning is the process of rendering animals immobile or unconscious, with or without killing the animal, when or immediately prior to slaughtering them for food.

What is stunning and why is it important?

Pigs are stunned prior to slaughter to minimise the suffering they experience. This is because an animal must be awake and conscious for poor welfare to occur, and an effective stun is one that renders the pig insensible for long enough for it to be stuck and bled without regaining consciousness.

How effective is stunning?

Plants that have an effective systematic approach to good captive bolt stunning practices will usually average about 96 to 98\% of the animals rendered insensible with a single shot (Grandin, 2005).

What are the 3 most common methods of stunning?

The three basic types of stunning methods which are classified as being humane (i.e., painless) in the United States, Europe and other foreign countries are captive bolt (penetrating and nonpenetrating), electrical, and C02 (carbon dioxide) gas anesthesia.

How animals are stunned before slaughter?

For starters, stunning itself is painful as most slaughterhouses make animals unconscious by exposing them to electric shock or firing a bolt against the animal’s head. Captive bolts go wrong many times and animals bleed to death. Chickens are mostly gassed.

How many types of stunning are there?