Diversity, not uniformity in waterbath stunning

Research in Belgian slaughterhouses showed a large variation in slaughter and stunning practices among the different processors. The minimum average electrical current that every chicken should receive at a certain frequency was not achieved for each animal monitored. In the European Union poultry, at the time of killing, is stunned by an appropriate method before slaughter and birds should remain unconscious and insensible to pain until death occurs. There are exceptions for religious rites, a