The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-08-05
The ABAT TORS OF PARIS.
Not Paris, Texas, This Time, but
Paris, France-How Food An
inals are Inspected and sIaugh-
tered in the French Capital.

inals are Inspected and Siaugh-
tered in the French Capital.
1t is quite a coincidence that the
same week The Chief printed a de-
scription of the municipal abattoir in
operation at Paris, Texas, there came
to hand the August number of Our
Dumb Animals, a Boston publication,
official organ of the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, with an interesting ar
tlcle from a contributor signing r.
ID. H., giving an account of the man
ner in which food animals are in
spected and slaughtered in Paris,
France. The topic is a live one Just
now. when the question of providing
for improved methods for such work
IN this community is pending, hence
space is accorded to the full text of
the contribution to Our Dumb AMI
mails:
:. Paris, Monday morning, June 1e.
i've o'clock. and we are on our way
70 the Abattoirs de la Villette. The
streets have long been giving eVi-
=aence nfe that the new day has come.
one sees at this early hour the
:.ieahlns OF the saving that nothing
is wasted here. Hundreds Of neon1o
VINO nave been collecting the gar
page and contents of boxes where tb
reTuse of tWenty-fo11r hours has 80.
c5'u1nulated Gu are sorting it over with
nalhstSak1ng care. Women, busy at
=.,ils TASK, outnumber the men along
ele streets we pass. How LITTLE tba
,host OF us Americans know aho,,t
taxing up the fragments that notbiro .
be lost! We NAV do this In o,,,
manufacturing enterprises. b11t In
OUT household economies we could
learn valuable lessons from the
French.
however, I am not writing about
awning but abattoirs lust now. and
OF these ] shall saw at present hrt
htfae, 9ning into no narrowing do
tails. Sensitive mon and women
shrlnK even from listening to the
story Of what goes on #dav after #dav
N the slanghtar-hnvees of the world
and one scarcn1v T,lar,,ns fhern vet
9 80 story Of Hn11tfarahle cruelty
Tor winch 1anarlv all of rs are "a
non s. ta W 10 create the demand ia 4
1s.' #s1a'1rhf fsr-h a11sas are forever fl1sv
*frVlTag tf1 s;l'se1al rff e4rar tlaa usarsf III
IS assa
from elas q
8 er'a and lay them on the hearts Of
their fellows.
Through the blindness OF NJ. Rooer
dos Varennes. Directenr DO Ia $50
eIefe des F'rancais ct Etrangers. :,
and who is assoeiatea with his
daughters in editing and nllblishino.
the Revue T'lnstran dos Aninanv Of
PARTS. a cultivated gentIeman and de-
voted to orr common cause, we were
provided with a letter frnnl~fho Pre-
lecture de Police requesting fn,. ans
all possible attention in. orr visit nf
insreefion Of the halls. marches and
ahnttoirs of the cifv. This letter Sc
cured for us the services of a very
ccmnefant veterinary who shared no
Dains to give all the information we
ac'yad for and who personally went
I'LL III, III 4tf'e itilAOSft5 nttIUDtF-
lass great stone hnildinos whare fhe
ford animals are slaughtered for the
markets of Paris.
There are three s11nh institutions
in the citv- under municipal control
and insnection, where annually some
three millions Of food animals
are slaughtered Included in This
L, 1,
thousand horses. the meat Of which
is sold largely to thu Door5 or made
I'D into sausa ees. Of course the
products of these abattnirs do not
hegin to meet the requirements of
the cjtv. The carcasses of manY
thousands OF similar animals are
hrought in from surrounding districts
The inspection anDears to be very
thorough. The animals are examined
before they are slaughtered and af-
terwards as we'll If the inspector is
not present at the time of slaugh-
tering the chief internal organs
must be left attached to the carcass
for his examination where there is
the slightest suspicion that ali is
not right.
AS to the methods employed in the
destruction of these food animals one
is at loss to determine whether,
all things considered, there is less
or more cruelty than with US. In
the larger animals, steers
and cows, their custom of putting on
the mask is certainly one we might
do well to initiate When the vie
tim is started from the pen to the
place of slaughter a leather mask is
fastened over it's face, making it i'm
possible for it to see anything. It.
can therefore be led or driven with
out much urging and when it arrives
at the fatal spot is unable to know
where it is or to see any of the
signs of destruction which are about
it. Its head is drawn down toward
the floor by a rope which runs
a ring. Then the blow is
struck with a heavy iron hammer,
the head of which, about four inches
long and perhaps five-eighths of an
inch in diameter, is hollow for a
little distance from the end. This
head of the hammer pierces the