Erica Voogt, a U.S.-based animal welfare consultant specializing in slaughter practices and colleague of Temple Grandin, recently published a blog on Meating Place, a website platform for major players of the international meat industry such as Cargill, JPS and Tyson, about our project to phase out CO₂ stunning in pigs and replace it with a newly designed, less painful and less stressful automatic electrical stunning system. This system was developed by Eyes on Animals, with guidance from Temple Grandin, and has now been successfully implemented in a large pig slaughterhouse in the Netherlands (since 2022 up and running).
As a platform used by leading meat companies such as Tyson Foods, JBC and Cargill, Meating Place offers important visibility. We believe this publication will help drive interest among major companies in the United States, Canada, and Brazil and beyond, encouraging them to move away from CO₂ gas stunning and realize now that a practical, less painful alternative is already available.
If you would like to read the article, click here.
Watch the film about this new design and why Eyes on Animals worked on it.
