NR ZBID

AU Wotton,S.B.; Gregory,N.G.

TI Pig slaughtering procedures: time to loss of brain responsiveness after exsanguination of cardiac arrest.

QU Research in Veterinary Science 1986 Mar; 40(2): 148-51

PT journal article

AB The time taken for a conventional chest stick to produce the loss of flash-evoked responsiveness in the electrocorticogram of anaesthetised pigs was compared with a method involving fibrillation of the heart. On average severing the brachiocephalic trunk and anterior vena cava took 18 seconds to induce a loss of brain responsiveness, and inducing cardiac fibrillation took 19 seconds. It is concluded that a pig slaughtering method that stuns the brain and at the same time fibrillates the heart is likely to be more humane than the conventional slaughtering methods where there is a delay between the stunning and sticking operations.

SP englisch

PO England

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