The aim behind humane methods of slaughter in processing plants is to ensure the welfare of any animal subject to pre-slaughter stunning by means of diminishing stress levels and eliminating any pain felt during slaughter.
To sustain these criteria for humane slaughter is the drive behind a remarkable and novel system, called Low Atmospheric Pressure Stunning (LAPS). This technology completely eliminates the use of gas stunning and live shackling, which are usually compromising factors to the bird’s welfare. In addition, LAPS holds the capacity to drastically reduce slaughter costs while improving worker safety, and it could set the standard of humaneness achieved during slaughter of poultry in modern processing plants.