Today the WACPAW/EONA team returned to the Krofrom slaughter slab in Kumasi to inspect conditions and retrain butchers on the correct and effective use of the captive bolt stunner before slaughter. We first trained this slaughterhouse three years ago and provided a captive bolt stunner at that time, which they used consistently until it eventually broke down.
Because we were unable to import new stunners into Ghana for nearly two years (due to administrative import changes and a new government), the slaughtermen were temporarily left without proper equipment and had no choice but to revert to the old practice of clubbing pigs on the head repeatedly with metal rods or wooden clubs. Now that we could finally bring more captive bolt stunners into the country again, we were able to immediately supply them with a new captive bolt stunner and restart humane stunning. The butchers at Krofrom are among those who have embraced stunning as a matter of principle and compassion for the pigs, and they reaffirmed their commitment that no pig will be slaughtered here without being stunned humanely first.
