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Stunning
After they are shackled, chickens are dragged through an electrified water bath that paralyzes them but doesn’t render them unconscious. As a result, chickens are often still conscious when their throats are cut. In her renowned book, Slaughterhouse, Gail Eisnitz explains: “Other industrialized nations require that chickens be rendered unconscious or killed prior to bleeding and scalding, so they won’t have to go through those processes conscious. Here in the United States, however, poultry plants—exempt from the Humane Slaughter Act and still clinging to the industry myth that a dead animal won’t bleed properly—keep the stunning current down to about one-tenth of that needed to render a chicken unconscious.” The bones of hens used for eggs are so brittle that they would shatter if they were dunked in the electric bath, so these birds go straight to the throat-cutting machines while they are still flapping their wings and frantically trying to escape. |
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