Hanging around the walls are the carcases of other beasts, whilst on the floor, lie bones and cooking vats, where the animal fats are. bolled down, After being dragged in, the animal is thrown on to the floor and head tied toa small stake set in the ground, "The slaughterer than seizes a. heavy hammer and rains low after blow on the unfortunate Ddeast's head, with the result that us many a5 five or six strokes must be made before the animal succumbs, with the first blow the skull is usually crushed but the animal does not die then, and many more are needed before the animal is dragged away to be skinned and cut open, Immediately after this operation another beast is dragged in and £0"
An inspector of the SS.P.C.A..who visited the establishment conferred with the operators. there who, with the "usual Chinese. viewpoint, stated that a slow death brought out the best qualities in the meat and they lat wish to change the methods of slaughter. The Society, however, offered them the services of a com: petent foreign slaughterer who would ill the animals inthe humane way oF to provide them with a more humane implement for. killing, 80 far the old method is still being used.
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