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stun

(stŭn),

To stupefy; to render unconscious by cerebral trauma.

[A.S. stunian, to make a loud noise]

stun

(stŭn) [Fr. estoner, to shake]

To render unconscious, e.g. by an electrical shock or trauma to the head.

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Evans at Pandor The latest quarterly figures from the Food Standards Agency show that almost 5,000 cattle were slaughtered in the UK without first being stunned, around 760,000 sheep and goats were not stunned and for poultry, the figure for the same three months is more than 16million.

Holy row over halal

"However, while this method of killing animals is generally deemed to be cruel, we have sufficient filmed evidence to show that many animals in traditional British slaughterhouses suffer the same fate, as they are often insufficiently stunned, leaving them to suffer the same painful end, having their throats cut while still partially or fully conscious.

Holy row as councils suppling schools with halal meat accused of "normalising cruelty to animals"; WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Is halal meat a religious right or grotesque animal cruelty?

"The British Veterinary Association, representing 17,000 British vets, believes that 'all animals should be stunned before slaughter to render them insensible to pain' and highlights that scientific evidence supports the use of pre-stunning to improve animal welfare.

Calls for council to stop serving pupils halal meat

The stunned myocardium: Prolonged, postischemic ventricular dysfunction.

Hemodialysis-induced myocardial stunning: a review

Onenc and Kaya (2004) reported higher WHC in meat samples of the un-stunned than the percussively and electrically stunned cattle, and in lamb, a higher drip loss was found in stunned compared to unstunned animals (Linares et al., 2007).

Quality assessment of longissimus and semitendinosus muscles from beef cattle subjected to non-penetrative and penetrative percussive stunning methods

It is more disturbing to find out that around 30 to 40 per cent of American cattle are stunned by pneumatic guns.

Halal method humane

2 : to affect with shock or confusion : fill with disbelief <He was stunned by the news.>

stun

Animals killed for Muslim halal and Jewish kosher meat are exempt from the rule that requires all animals to be stunned bef ore being slaughtered,because their religions have traditionally forbidden stunning.

Letter: Suffering

I was stunned when a good friend suggested to me that the cause of my ulcer was my relationship with my father.

Fathers and sons: Finlay Moir's attitude to his son changed when he asked his own father for forgiveness

All Halal meat sold at Asda, Tesco and Safeway stores is from animals that have been stunned before being killed.

YOUR VIEWS: Cruel ritual

Peter Soul says that animals are properly stunned before being killed, but we saw sheep and pigs regaining consciousness while bleeding to death.

Abattoir killings are often inhumane

Except for the wounds where the electrodes are in contact with the skin, in almost all cases there seem to be few physical aftereffects to being stunned. Indeed, being stunned is often a part of the training program for operators of stun technologies.