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Comments for Flow Chart 1. The next slide covers the initial on farm steps How stressful do you feel the handling of the birds is? How many birds are being held at one time? Is it reasonable? Are the cages designed properly for putting in birds?
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Comments for Flow Chart 1 • The next slide covers the initial on farm steps • How stressful do you feel the handling of the birds is? • How many birds are being held at one time? Is it reasonable? • Are the cages designed properly for putting in birds? • Do you think the forklift handling stresses the birds?
On Farm Handling of Poultry Catching Bird A1 C3 Putting Birds In Cages A1 C3 Putting Cages On Trucks B2 Transportation Hyperlinks to visuals: You must be connected to the Internet. The letters are for video clips in Windows Media and the numbers in each pair are for the same clip in Quicktime. Quicktime seems to work better when Internet Explorer is closed.
Comments for Flow Chart 2 • The second flow chart covers the initial stages within the plant. • How stressful is the crate unloading and the hanging? • What do you think of the stunning, cutting, bleeding of the birds? • By the time the birds reach the scalder they should ALL be insensitive
Flow Chart for Early Stages of Chicken Processing Relevant to Kosher and Halal Dumping Prior To Hanging K11 Regular Process Hanging D4 E5 F6 Electrical Stunning G7 L12 Throat Cutting H8 Bleeding I9 Scalding J10 Feather Picking M13 Kosher Process Live Slaughter Bleeding Cold Scalding Visuals: The letters are for video clips in Windows Media and the numbers are for Quicktime.
Kosher/Halal Differences • Currently we do not have any pictures to illustrate religious slaughter, but to compare: • The bird is held, cut, and then hung – so some blood drainage has occurred before the birds are hung – is this an advantage? • The bird is “cold” scaled – preferably in ice water. Why the extra cold? What are the implications of cold scalding in terms of getting the feathers off? Food safety?