Not opining on the overall question, but FWIW I’m not sure on-farm slaughter is better. Reason being — I think that large slaughterhouses have “smoother” processes and (per animal killed) are less likely to end up with e.g. no stunning, stunning but resuscitation before being killed, etc.
But this does have to be weighed against the stress of transport, and I bet in a lot of cases it’d have been better to have on-farm slaughter given the length & conditions of transport.
Not opining on the overall question, but FWIW I’m not sure on-farm slaughter is better. Reason being — I think that large slaughterhouses have “smoother” processes and (per animal killed) are less likely to end up with e.g. no stunning, stunning but resuscitation before being killed, etc.
But this does have to be weighed against the stress of transport, and I bet in a lot of cases it’d have been better to have on-farm slaughter given the length & conditions of transport.