Exam 2

Question 1

What are goals of the slaughter process?

Answer 1

safe & quality product
safe environment
ensure animal welfare

Question 2

define slaughter

Answer 2

killing and butchering of animals (bleed to death) usually for food

Question 3

federal meat inspection act of 1906

Answer 3

prohibited the sale of misbranded livestock and products as food and ensure livestock were slaughter/processed under sanitary conditions

Question 4

the federal meat inspection act requires 3 things?

Answer 4

ante-mortem inspection
post-mortem inspection
final product inspection

Question 5

humane slaughter act of 1958

Answer 5

protects livestock during harvest
(animals should be stunned)

Question 6

Steps of slaught (

Answer 6

transport

Question 7

lairage

Answer 7

resting area in packing plant where animals are contained until slaughter

Question 8

animals should not be in the transportation process for more than

Answer 8

28 hrs

Question 9

what are effects of poor transportation

Answer 9

stress
trampling
fatigue
death
bad meat quality

Question 10

where does the antemortem inspection occur

Answer 10

lairage holding pens

Question 11

what is antemortem inspection

Answer 11

used to locate animals not fit for human consumption, checks if animals are down, disabled, diseased or dead

Question 12

minimum time for lairage

Answer 12

2 hours

Question 13

feed withdraw time before slaughter

Answer 13

12-24 hours prior to transport and slaughter

Question 14

downers or non ambulatory animals

Answer 14

animals not capable of moving on their own

Question 15

1st step of slaughter

Answer 15

render animals unconscious

Question 16

signs of an effective stun

Answer 16

head must be limp & floppy
no responses

Question 17

3 types of stunning

Answer 17

mechanical, electrical, & CO2

Question 18

mechanical stunning

Answer 18

immobilizing animals by eliciting trauma to head (most common captive bolt) cattle & lambs

Question 19

electrical stunning pigs

Answer 19

current is passed through animal and results in epileptic-like-seizure-immobilized state

Question 20

electrical stunning poultry

Answer 20

birds are shackled, hung on a moving chain and partially submerged in electrified saline solution

Question 21

CO2 stunning

Answer 21

animals placed in chamber with 80-90% (used most often with pigs)

Question 22

CO2 stunning leads to what

Answer 22

hypoxia- competes with oxygen to bind to hemoglobin, so animals lose consciousness