FUR FARM SLAUGHTER METHODS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Your correspondents appear to assume that an animal killed by chloroform is killed quickly and humanely : what is the evidence for this ? The analogy of a human being faking chlorbform for the performance of an operation .is irrelevant; he can and does understand what the process means ; with an animal it is quite different, it hates all pungent smells, is not unconscious for two to three minutes, during which time it is struggling and fighting for breath, in fact, though I hold no brief for the method of " crushing out life " with the foot over the heart, I should not be surprised if the animal became unconscious more quickly than with chloroform. Would it not be possible to get a really quick and painless method of taking these animals' lives, e.g. pith- ing? —I am, Sir, &c.,
Eaglestone, Strathpeffer, Ross-shire.
F. A. BEARN.
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