189A.18 - HUMANE SLAUGHTER PRACTICES.
189A.18 HUMANE SLAUGHTER PRACTICES.
Every establishment subject to the provisions of this chapter
engaged in the slaughter of bovine, porcine, or ovine animals or farm
deer shall slaughter all such animals in an approved humane
slaughtering method. For purposes of this section an approved humane
slaughtering method shall include and be limited to slaughter by
shooting, electrical shock, captive bolt, or use of carbon dioxide
gas prior to the animal being shackle hoisted, thrown, cast or cut;
however, the slaughtering, handling or other preparation of livestock
in accordance with the ritual requirements of the Jewish or any other
faith that prescribes and requires a method whereby slaughter becomes
effected by severance of the carotid arteries with a sharp instrument
is hereby designated and approved as a humane method of slaughter
under the law. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 189A.18] Section History: Recent Form
95 Acts, ch 134, § 4