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Originally posted by Steve
Sorry but I have to correct you on that one, they lead horrible lives but their is money in their deaths being painless, if they feel pain or get scared they release adrenaline and it makes the meat taste bad.
I am ignorant and don't deny it
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Yes, you are. But one thing you said is true; if the animals feel pain or are scared, their meat will end up tasting bad. And that's exactly the way it is! Like Anja Eerikäinen, the long time defender of animals in Finland, who unfortunately passed away this year, said, quote, "People don't even know what good pork tastes like any more". The meat you claim to be good, could actually be alot better if the slaughtering would be done in another way and the animals would be threated better during their lives.
Most of the animals, which are raised up for our plaites are forced to live in too small crowed cages or stalls. Eg. chickens usually have the space of one A4 paper per head. They get frustrated with the little space, the other chickens and nothing to do. Then then can peck and hurt each other. Usually the greedy meat growers stuck into the truck as many pigs, cows, chickend, or whatever, because it is cheaper and you don't have to drive back and forth so many times while taking the animals to slaughter houses. The animals are put there side by side and over each other. Chickens often get their legs and wings broken during the trip. Then they can be left in the car for the night or in some cases for days (which, ofcourse, is illegal, but still common).
The actual slaughtering is usually done, like Syd said, by giving the animals electric shocks or slitting their throats. Chickens are often put on a conveyor belt of a kind, where they are hanging upside-down. Then they move towards a bucket of water, to which electricity lead to. The chicken is supposed to die to the shock, but often the bird is trying to get lose and its protesting leads to it missing the bucket, so it's still alive on the next phase, or it can hit the bucket partly and paralyze a wing or some other part.