THE KILLING OF POULTRY.
I AT GOVERNMENT DEPOTS,
(By . Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) ; ) Chrlstohuroh, April 17.
Some time ago Mr. W.> H. Zouch, secretary of the Canterbury Society for the. Prevention of Cruelty ' to Animals, wrote to the Minister forAgriculture in regard to a letter containing' a statement by a resident of Christchurch that he had seen birds at tlie Government Poultry. Depot in this city plucked while they, were still aliye. , The Hon. T. Mackenzie has replied that the method of killing the birds is bv dislocating the. neck—a njethod used all over the world. : In the of experts in' the Department it is - impossible when this, method is employed that a bird can oxperienoe any feeling. In to the suggestion that the birds saffer "mental anguish" owing to their pens being placed in such a posi-. tion that they witness the doath of their companions, it may be stated that there is no. evidence that the lower animals have any sensibility in • this direction, and (says the Minister) I think most authorities deny that they have. A similar method of killing sheop-. in front of tho rest in the pen -is, I tbmk, oommon at' most slaughterhouses."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 794, 18 April 1910, Page 7
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