Wotton S B, Gregory N G
Res Vet Sci. 1986 Mar;40(2):148-51.
The time taken for a conventional chest stick to produce the loss of flash-evoked responsiveness in the electrocorticogram of anaesthetised pigs was compared with a method involving fibrillation of the heart. On average severing the brachiocephalic trunk and anterior vena cava took 18 seconds to induce a loss of brain responsiveness, and inducing cardiac fibrillation took 19 seconds. It is concluded that a pig slaughtering method that stuns the brain and at the same time fibrillates the heart is likely to be more humane than the conventional slaughtering methods where there is a delay between the stunning and sticking operations.
将传统胸部刺杀使麻醉猪的皮质电图中闪光诱发反应消失所需的时间与一种使心脏颤动的方法进行了比较。平均而言，切断头臂干和前腔静脉需要18秒才能导致脑反应消失，而诱发心脏颤动需要19秒。得出的结论是，一种使猪脑昏迷同时使心脏颤动的屠宰方法可能比传统屠宰方法更人道，传统屠宰方法在致昏和刺杀操作之间存在延迟。
