Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
    1. Objectives
    2. What you need to know
    3. Learning goals
    4. Teacher page
  2. Main Content
    1. Driving system using biological principles
    2. Driving system with no concern for biological principles
    3. Other systems for driving pigs to stunning
    4. Consequences of bad pre-slaughter handling
    5. The slaughter pig
    6. Sensory capacity of the pig
    7. Physical conditions
    8. Social conditions
    9. Handling conditions
    10. Simple ways of making handling easier
    11. Assessment of driving quality
    12. Designing a driving system based on biological principles
    13. Problems that still need to be solved
  3. Completion
    1. Comments
    2. Self test
    3. Take home messages
    4. Further reading
    5. Evaluation