Temple Grandin explains how undercover filming in abattoirs can be good
31/01/2014
Dr Grandin told media in Brazil that a project in which she helped train auditors for hamburger chain McDonald’s about the best way to move animals through abattoirs, including stunning them before the kill, had worked well.
She said she had also had success with a project with an auditing company that wanted to install video cameras to monitor abattoir activity remotely to make sure packers keep to set standards even when no auditor is on site.
Video can help abattoir operators in another way, she said. Dr Grandin believes it would be helpful for operators to imagine what their processes would look like if they were recorded on a mobile phone with the video then being posted on the internet.
“Consumers are becoming more and more concerned about the treatment of animals,” she said. “So the meat industry should ask itself if its processes did appear on a video, what would those processes look like to people living in cities? If there is anything there that the meat companies feel embarrassed about, they should simply stop doing it.”
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