Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Meat Sci. 2012 Apr;90(4):956-61. doi: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2011.11.039. Epub 2011 Dec 8.
Animals have been slaughtered by humans since time immemorial. Over the last few generations attention has been focused on minimizing the animal's pain and suffering during slaughter. Based on the assumption that loss of consciousness due to electrical stunning combined with exsanguination is a humane technique of slaughter, this procedure has become one of the most widely employed methods in commercial meat production, being used in almost all species. In recent years, some shortcomings with this method of minimizing the animal's suffering have been noted. Electrical stunning is probably more akin to human electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) than to epilepsy, and some of the negative aspects of unmodified ECT may be present during electrical stunning, further questioning the use of electrical stunning in the slaughter of animals.
自古以来，动物就被人类屠杀。在过去的几代人中，人们一直致力于将动物在屠宰过程中的痛苦和折磨降到最低。基于电休克联合放血导致意识丧失是一种人道的屠宰技术的假设，这种方法已成为商业肉类生产中最广泛使用的方法之一，几乎用于所有物种。近年来，人们注意到这种减轻动物痛苦的方法存在一些缺点。电休克可能更类似于人类电痉挛疗法（ECT），而不是癫痫，未经修饰的 ECT 的一些负面影响可能在电休克过程中存在，这进一步质疑了在动物屠宰中使用电休克。
