Head-only stunning offers alternative to gas

Many consider water bath or controlled atmosphere stunning to be the two best choices when choosing ways to render poultry unconscious before a more welfare-friendly kill. But one Dutch company is marketing an alternative, stunning poultry by the head individually. European poultry processors have trended towards using controlled atmosphere stunning and always using water baths for a number of years, and in some ways it’s easy to see why. Birds are not handled before stunning in such systems,