Hanging around the walls are the Carcases of other beasts, whilst on the floor, lie bones and cooking vats where the animal fats are boiled down. After being dragged in, the animal is thrown on to the floor and its head tied to a small stake set in the ground. The slaughterer then seizes a heavy hammer and blow after blow on the unfortur beast's head, with the result th many as five or six strokes must be made before the animal succumbs With the first blow usually crushed but the animal die then, and many more are ded before the a is dragged away to be skinned and cut ope Immediately after this operation other beast is dragged in and so it goes on.
An inspector of the S.S.P.C.A. who visited the establishment conferred with the operators there w the usual Chinese viewpoint that a slow death brought out best qualities in the meat and t did not wish to change the me of slaughter. The Society, howeve offered them the services of a com petent foreign slaughterer who would kill the animals' in the humane way or to provide them with a rore humane implement for killing. So far the old method is still being used first international radio telephone communication between Tokyo and Bogota, capital of Colomb successfully i when greetings were exchange ed between Mr. Yoshizawa, Director merican Affairs Bureau of and Mr e service is expected Ibe ope the public shortly.
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