What is the best way to kill a cow for food that it won't be painful for the cow?!
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Electrocute it while someone beats it with a bat.
With a shotgun to the head.
Personally I think if you want to eat cow meat, you shoul d have to kill it yourself.
That way most people wouldn't. It is a huge animal and doesn't want to be killed. No animal does.
So why do we humans think it's OK to kill them? It's not. It's just cruel. They weren't doing anything.
Go up behind it, shoot it in the head.
But what about it's friends, its' babies? What about them, they will miss it.
Really, if you want to kill a living being, do the same to a human being beforehand.
The best way, the most humane way, the way that keeps the animal calm, is the way it's done in major packing plants (slaughterhouses to vegans) across the US.
Ellie Krieger from the Food Network visited a major packing plant recently (slaughterhouse to vegans) and here's what she said about the actual killing process:
"The last thing I saw was the actual harvest or killing. To be sure, it is not a pleasurable thing to witness in general, but if you eat meat, the simple fact is an animal is sacrificed for your nourishment, a reality we are all too removed from in modern society. The trick is to do it humanely, and this is where I was most impressed. The system Cargill uses was developed in part by Dr. Temple Grandin, the autistic animal scientist who, with her heightened sensitivity, was able to pinpoint specific ways to keep cows stress-free throughout the process (there is an award winning HBO film about her starring Claire Danes.) The whole environment is kept purposefully calm, with no loud noises or bright lights. Before they realize what is going on the cows are hit precisely on the head, given a concussion so they are rendered senseless, then their throats are cut and their blood is drained. The whole thing takes roughly a minute. I watched intently as the cows moved through and noticed no shred of panic or unease."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellie-krie…
And for those who claim we should all kill an animal before we eat it, I say you should be forced to grow every veggie that goes in your mouth, too.
Look up kosher slaughter, and the word "kashrut". These are the Jewish laws about food and cleanliness. Any animal that is killed for food has to be killed in such a way that it will not suffer or be afraid.
You might also look up Temple Grandin.
most people in america will tell you that stunning is the most humane way. In other cultures they stick the throat of the animal with a knife. Their is research now that shows that sticking an animals is less painful than stunning and then sticking it.
They use a device that strikes with great force into the skull. When this method is used properly the animal dies instantly.
There is no way. Death is always painful so the only way is to let the cow live in peace.
In the same manner that one could kill the troll and not have it be painful for the troll.
Have Rachel Walker talk to it until it commits suicide.
Stick sewing needles up its ***.
Wait 22 years for it to die a natural death.
A shot of tranquilizer it'll pass out then do what you have to do
bullet to the brain.
Quickly. very quickly.
My dad used to shoot them in the head. They drop like a stone, instant death, no pain. Maybe an involuntary twitch or 2 but dead.
I am sure there are other methods but thats the way dad did it.
Cows don't have the same emotions a human does.
Their 'friends' won't miss them and by the time a cow is in to be butchered, its babies has been gone from it for a very long time.
And generally butcher animals aren't cows anyway, they are steers which are castrated males so babies to miss them.
Even in its prime, when a calf is removed from its mother, it takes all of 2 days, if that, to quit bawling for its baby and then it is business as usual.
And no death is not always painful.
If the brain is destroyed, there are no receptors to send messages of pain.
Basic science and anatomy.
born and raised on a farm and worked on a dairy farm.