Items Tagged with 'humane handling'

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Herd of Cows
Processing Tech

De-stressing slaughter

Low-stress handling is key to humane slaughter and stunning practices.
Megan pellegrini
Megan Pellegrini
January 8, 2020
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Although Dr. Temple Grandin wrote the book on best animal welfare practices, much can still be learned to make slaughter and stunning practices more humane.
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Game of Tic-Tac-Toe
State of the Industry 2019 | Animal Welfare

State of Animal Welfare 2019

Get back to the basics
Kurtvogel
Kurt D. Vogel PhD
October 23, 2019
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The University of Wisconsin-River Falls Animal Welfare Lab's summary of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) humane handling regulatory activity from 2018 identified ineffective stunning as the most common cause of suspension.
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Close-up of Cow
Farm to Plate

Data pinpoints need for a continued focus on stunning efficacy and management

A stunning issue: Assessing humane-handling enforcement actions and developing teachable moments for processors on stunning and handling of animals.
Faith Baier Lucas Heimmermann Sara Odegard Kaleiah Schiller
Kurtvogel
Kurt D. Vogel PhD
June 13, 2018
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In 2016 and 2017, 107 and 104 humane handling enforcement actions were posted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Web site, respectively.
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