Using a gun for this task is:
1. Dangerous
2. Causes public disturbance
3. Probably illegal (to use out in the open and in public)
4. Messy
5. Might ruin meat, get pieces of brain or bone in the blood stream
6. Causes collateral damage
7. Expensive
8. POINTLESS
9. They could probably get a captive bolt gun for the same investment, but it's a pointless investment since the way they do it works fine. Who knows what financial problems it would cause them too.
As for the knife, they cut the arteries in the neck to let it bleed out. They didn't stab it to death and they wouldn't stab it in the heart. That could just pointlessly waste and ruin meat. Bleeding animals out is common and standard procedure.
lrn2slaughter
You have some good points about guns but not entirely valid ones here.
1. If handled responsibly dangerous how?
2. That's nice, it's a good thing public disturbance laws don't apply to rural settings(at least in the US)
3. See above.^ Farms are generally in the country. If you are bringing the cow to town to kill it you are showing off.
4. No more so then this method.
5. That is a FDA concern Not generally one country folk worry about. Many of which eat things like head cheese and brain pudding.
6. What kind.
7. BS. Most bullets are cheap and most farmers have guns to protect there animals already.
8. How?
9. Reality check.
http://www.qcsupply.com/farm-livest...tml?limit=36&gclid=CIzZnb34sqkCFRFj7Aod4g3EOg
It's nice your pro gun control and all but they do have their uses.
Also if you had watched the video you might have noticed that the first thing that happens after the head bashing is the guy that steps in and stabs downward at the heart but from above and behind the sternum. Bleeding an animal is done by cutting it's throat for rapid exsanguination same with anything with a neck.
a pointed knife is fully inserted through the skin just behind the point of the jaw and below the neck bones. From this position, the knife is drawn forward severing the jugular vein, carotid artery, and trachea. Properly performed, blood should flow freely with death occurring within a few minutes. Sometimes the same procedure is repeated on the other side of the neck, severing vein and artery on the other side.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsanguination
I have had to slaughter animals for food and also put injured ones down. Not cows admittedly but like I said b4 I have seen it done both on an industrial scale in video and in person on a small scale like this. I am sure this happens elsewhere then Honduas, and yes it could be worse, but this is still watton cruelty to the animal.
@ the those who are here for the fud bashing.
I am aware that I have no1 to blame but myself 99% of the time. I have good ideas, but I am terrable at the follow through. If I was better at following through I would have more succeses to point at and people would perhaps be more inclined to take me seriously. Who knows maybe one of the ideas I start
and finish will be a good 1.