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4 Info. Rep.: Animal Welfare Inst. 1 (1955)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0004 and id is 1 raw text is: ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE 350 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK I, N. Y. January-February, 1955 Vol. 4, No. I Determination that food animals in the United States and Canada must be slaughtered humanely is growing with great rapidity. In Utah, a bill has been introduced in the legislature to effect this purpose, and its sponsors include both Republicans and Democrats. Their occupations are, appropriately, meat dealer, cattleman, and housewife, with two representatives in the last category. In British Columbia similar legislation has also been introduced. It has the backing of the packing house union and is being encouraged by the newly formed Humane Slaughter Association, 1495 Robson St., Vancouver, In Washington, Mr. Christian P. Norgord of the American Humane Association has been actively consulting with government experts in the drafting of a federal bill requiring humane slaughter which is expected to be in- troduced shortly. The National Humane Society, a new organization pledged to work against national cruelties, has voted sub- stantial funds to initiate a study of electrical stunning. This method, widely used in nine European countries, was prohibited in the United States a quarter of a century ago on the basis of the Simonds Report, a piece of research financed by the meat-packing industry, the accuracy of whose conclusions is now being sharply questioned. Mr. John Macfarlane, Director of Livestock Conservation for the Massachusetts SPCA and a member of the Executive Committee of Livestock Conservation Inc., will leave for Europe in May to visit major European slaughter- houses and to bring back reports and pictures on methods in regular use to render animals unconscious prior to slaughter. Dr. Lyle Davis of the United States Department of Agriculture has been doing excellent work on the anes- thetization of poultry with carbon dioxide which may lead to wide adoption of this method. For the information of readers desiring to cooperate by purchasing only htunanely killed meats, the following is a partial listing of packing plants using the captive bolt pistol to stun cattle: Oscar Mayer & Co., Madison, Wis- consin; Great Falls Meat Co., Great Falls, Montana; Cudahy Brothers Co., Cudahy, Wisconsin; Peters Packing Co., McKeesport, Pennsylvania; L. A. Frey & Sons, New Orleans, Louisiana; Elsheimers Meat Products, West Union, Iowa; C. E. Richards and Sons, Muscatine, Iowa; American Stores Co., Pueblo, Colorado; Fresno Meat Packing Co., Fresno, California; Chicago Dressed Beef, Worcester, Massachusetts; Salter Packing Co., Vernon, California; Triangle Meat Company, Chicago, Illinois. Hormel pork products and C. A. Swanson and Sons turkey products are humanely produced. Manufacturers of humane slaughtering equipment are: Koch Supplies, Kansas City 8, Missouri, manufacturers of the captive bolt pistol; Barker Poultry Equipment Company, Ottumwa, Iowa, manufacturers of electrical stunning devices for poultry; Allbright-Nell Co., Chicago, Illinois, manufacturers of equipment for the anesthetization of hogs by carbon dioxide. CRUELTY TO MONKEYS The number of monkeys being captured and flown to the United States this year is not yet known, but a single flight may bring as many as 2,200. Five airlines have been or will be transporting monkeys, and their schedules vary from three of these flights a month to as many as two in a week. A major animal protective problem is involved, one that has been too long neglected. The Institute has sought the assistance of a number of animal protective societies, both here and abroad, and a limited amount of progress has already been made in reducing the suffering inflicted. Cruelty and the economic waste from the resulting sickness and death of the monkeys go hand in hand. Here are excerpts from reports of the arrival of some of these animals at Idlewild Airport this month: A shipment of 900 rhesus monkeys for a large pharmaceutical house from a dealer in Calcutta. Crates were

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