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[Nanno]

Interesting. I've always heard that slitting the throat is the most humane way to slaughter and the least likely to result in mistakes, as can (and often does) happen with a bullet. My neighbor slaughters goats that way and says they pass out immediately from blood loss to the head before they know what happened. Jews and Muslims use only this method of slaughter because other methods are believed unclean, and I've heard it's very humane. Even one of my books on goat husbandry lauds throat cutting as the quickest, cleanest way to kill a goat. Maybe it's all in how you do it? One thing I do know is that trauma to an animal before death hurts the meat, so a butcher who uses inhumane methods to slaughter animals isn't going to have good results in his products. Guns are a very recent invention in human history, so surely there had to be humane ways of putting down animals before the last two centuries. However, this is why I want to go and see for myself before taking any of my animals to a butcher.