If they survive long enough they will be crammed into lorries and sent to slaughter. By not consuming meat or animal products you will be in far less danger of exposure to pesticides. Vegetables, at the beginning of the food chain, contain only a fraction of the amount in animal flesh. From an Animal to a Sunday Roast Anyone who believes that animals are killed humanely is deluding themselves. It just isn't true The cold economics of running a slaughterhouse makes any semblance of compassion a luxury that simply cannot be afforded.
Most slaughterhouses look like something out of a horror film.
Their sounds are also similar. Electric shocks intended to stun the animal often do not. And it's obviously terrifying for slaughter animals as they wait for hours in holding pens, sensing their demise. For the 78 million animals killed in slaughterhouses in New Zealand each year, the violence and terror of the abattoir is the culmination of a life spent suffering on the farm. In New Zealand three methods of stunning are used.