Canadian slaughter houses and the issue of stun free slaughter

[Catherine]

Technically animals are stunned before their throats are cut. If you watch the video in this article you will know that too often they are still conscious.
The issue in this article is stun free slaughter. It is a religious exemption that allows the animal to have its throat cut without stunning, while it is fully conscious. The animal is supposed to be  unconscious before it is hung up to bleed out. That would mean stopping to check before the animal hung up. 
Stun free kills floors don't want to do that because it would take longer. The group Animal Justice is fighting for the wellbeing of the animals.
They want some precautions take during stun free slaughter.

European countries require stunning of the animal after its throat is cut in a stun free slaughter. Some countries, including Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Slovenia have banned stun free slaughter altogether.


https://animaljustice.ca/blog/court-halt...-slaughter

I want to say it is a complicated issue, but really it isn't. We kill animals to eat them. In theory we do it humanely, but we routinely allow some groups to skip the steps that make it more humane. The way we process animals for killing is not humane. Allowing some groups to skip even the minimum of humane behavior shows us up as not being humane at all.

Canada is not a shinning example in this subject.