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Well, I know that under 20 years ago, for cattle, they would herd them into the plant and one by one, send them through the "knocker". It was basically just a large, steel spike that was aligned to ram straight through the cow's skull, killing it immediately. They used to have people who would manually run the knocking machine, but I'm pretty sure that changed as it just... got to people. Every now and then, the spike would miss the cow's brain, and it would be alive while they were flaying it or it would manage to stumble around a bit and then make a break from the plant. My dad once came across a stop-light at night, when all of a sudden, a bloody cow just went running past the intersection. He rolled down his window and yelled to it, "Run, run! You're almost there! You're almost home-free!"
We don't know exactly what happened to it, but nothing gets out of life alive anyways.
As horrible as it sounds, instant-death is far more humane than what these people did in the vid. That was just fucking sick and wrong. I'm really not sure about slaughterhouses for pigs, but I would imagine they are very similar to those of cows. PETA released lots of vids showing abuse in these plants and such, but it's not the fault of the system or the meat-industry; it's the fault of the fucking yokel-employees who have little regard for the suffering of life. Desensitized, my ass - people make choices and it takes a bad type of person to actually go through with something like that.
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