Published Date:
03 July 2009
TO put meat on the dining table, it is obvious that an animal has to die.
Most people want reassurance that the slaughter of these animals is painless, but the latest research by the Government's own welfare advisory body, The Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC), makes for troubling reading.
They recently published a report into the slaughter of poultry in Britain, which says that there is no ideal way to kill animals for meat – which pretty much blows out of the water the myth of humane slaughter.
Staggeringly, in Britain each year we kill 853 million chickens, ducks and turkeys.
Most of these are on conveyor belts of slaughter, with often over 10,000 poultry dying each hour. FAWC is concerned that it would be difficult to guarantee the welfare of individual birds at this rate.
The average Brit consumes 11,047 animals in their lifetime – that's how many you could save by simply making the choice for life and go veggie!
Justin Kerswell
Campaigns Manager
Wilder Street
Bristol
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03 July 2009 12:37 PM
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