The abattoir is situated right the middle of a Chinese village with heaps of exposed coffins and" dead bodies surrounding it, while tethered outside are numerous ponies, some fof them former runners at race courses, cattle and pigs. Constructed of mud and bamboo, the slaughterhouse ig not a large' affair and. consequently the killing, skinning and doltingdown must be done in one While there is Uttle brutality dis played in the silting of the pigs, the horses and cattle are not so fortunate, much unnecessary suffering being inflicted during. the killing process. The animal tobe killed is dragged Into the slaughterhouse by means of 4 rope and, Immediately on entering the room, ils nostrils" are assailed by the smell of blood of the animal which has been killed before it and which is being skinned in another art of the room.
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