Pig slaughter is the work of slaughtering domestic pigs to obtain pig meat (pork). It regularly happens as part of traditional and intensive pig farming, which is both a common economic activity as well as a traditional feast in some European and Asian countries. Pig we get from Arby’s in 1983. Photo by Jaan Künnap.

2023年6月15日 · How are pigs slaughtered on a farm? Learn pig slaughtering and butchering to know exactly where your meat came from and that your pig had the best quality of life.

2020年6月8日 · Producers with market-ready hogs can sell live pigs to consumers for home slaughtering and processing. young, healthy pig — weighing 240 to 300 pounds — is ideal. At this size, the animal will produce cuts and sizes most people want and yield more than half its live weight in hams, shoulders, loins, sausage and bacon.

Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork : bacon , ham , gammon ) and skins .

The pig slaughter process includes several operations, each of which can influence pork quality. The slaughter process includes transport of pigs to the abattoir, lairage, moving the pigs to stunning, stunning, shackling, exsanguination, dressing, and chilling the carcasses.

2024年1月1日 · For slaughter, pigs are usually bled by chest sticking. However, prior to the sticking, stunning is mandatory to cause loss of consciousness and sensibility without pain. The chapter covers the general principles of stunning and the main stunning methods, including monitoring the state of consciousness until death occurs through bleeding.

Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year, 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. [ 4 ] Most animals are slaughtered for food ; however, they may also be slaughtered for other reasons such as for harvesting of pelts , being diseased and unsuitable for ...

In 2019 in the U.S., commercial “farmers” slaughtered nearly 130 million pigs—a number greater than the combined human populations of California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania. That’s an average of more than 2 million—the population of Houston—every week.

2020年6月17日 · The killing of pigs for human consumption (slaughtering) can take place in a slaughterhouse or on farm. The processes of slaughtering that were assessed for welfare, from the arrival of pigs until their death, were grouped into three main phases: pre‐stunning (including arrival, unloading from the truck, lairage, handling and moving of pigs ...

2019年7月30日 · At the AHAW Network meeting held in July 2019, two exercises were held aimed at i) the identification of hazards for pigs at slaughter and ii) the identification of hazards during on-farm killing of pigs.