page_title: Animal slaughter
section_title: Killing
hierarchical_section_title: Animal slaughter / Methods / Killing
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: インドネシアの市場で鳥をさばいているところ
context_page_description: Animal slaughter is the killing of animals, usually referring to killing domestic livestock. It is estimated that each year 77 billion land animals are slaughtered for food. In general, the animals would be killed for food; however, they might also be slaughtered for other reasons such as being diseased and unsuitable for consumption. The slaughter involves some initial cutting, opening the major body cavities to remove the entrails and offal but usually leaving the carcass in one piece. Such dressing can be done by hunters in the field or in a slaughterhouse. Later, the carcass is usually butchered into smaller cuts.
  The animals most commonly slaughtered for food are cattle and water buffalo for beef and veal, sheep for lamb and mutton, goats for goat meat, pigs for pork, deer for venison, horses for horse meat, poultry, insects, and increasingly, fish in the aquaculture industry.
context_section_description: Exsanguination
  The animal either has its throat cut or has a chest stick inserted cutting close to the heart.  In both these methods, main veins and/or arteries are cut and allowed to bleed.
  Drug administration
  Drug administration is used to ensure the animal is dead. However, being that this method is expensive, time-consuming, and renders the animals' bodies toxic and inedible, it is mainly used for animal euthanasia, not as a commercialized slaughter method.
caption: Chicken slaughter at the market in Indonesia
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