ABSTRACT
Stunning of animals prior to slaughter is a practice that has developed almost global acceptance as the understanding of the need to provide ‘immediate insensibility’ during the slaughter process has become widely accepted. Some countries and territories do not permit stunning before slaughter for religious or cultural reasons, but in many parts of the world it is now assumed, and in many countries, demanded by law, that stunning will take place as the first of the steps required to kill a commercially slaughtered animal (Berg and Raj, 2015).
