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AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONDEMNS TRAPPERS KILLING METHOD
Last winter, a Respect for Animals’ investigator working undercover filmed trappers in North America catching and killing wild animals for their fur. The main method the trappers used to kill trapped animals was to simply stamp or kneel on them.
On the soundtrack of the film the sounds of the animals' ribs breaking and their wheezing and gasping can clearly be heard as they die.
To any ordinary person this is not a humane method of killing an animal yet it is used for millions of animals each winter during the trapping season.
Now the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has entered the debate and published some information on ‘Thoracic Compression'*. The paper says that ‘The exact cause of death as resulting from thoracic compression has not been demonstrated.......It is widely believed that death is a direct result of cessation of breathing' i.e. suffocation.
The AVMA concludes: ‘...thoracic compression cannot be assumed to reliably produce a rapid death or one with minimal suffering, and thus not deemed to be a method of euthanasia at this time.'
In plain English - it's cruel. The suffering of these animals is unimaginable and unforgiveable.
The full report can be seen here: http://www.avma.org/reference/backgrounders/thoracic_compression_bgnd.pdf
