captive bolt
Livestock stunning device
A captive bolt is a device used in slaughterhouses to stun animals before slaughter.
It fires a metal rod into the skull, rendering the animal unconscious without killing it outright.
The bolt is "captive" because it retracts into the gun rather than being expelled like a bullet.
The cattle were stunned with a captive bolt before processing.
- stun gunDevice that incapacitates electrically
- stungunElectric incapacitation device
- slaughterhouseAnimal killing facility
- humaneMarked by kindness
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
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Projectile weapon using explosives
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captive boltelectrocution
Death from electrical current
exsanguination · lethal injection · ritual slaughter · halal slaughter · kosher slaughter
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