Humane Animal Slaughter

It's like humane slaughter of animals for food - there are ways that don't cause unnecessary pain, others that do.

To anyone reading this thread and thinking "The horror!":Being culled through these various methods is no better or worse than they would have experienced under "normal" conditions - i.e. being raised until they are fit for slaughter and sale. No animal wants to die, and the methods used to kill them when being sold are just as cruel as the "culling" techniques listed here [1].If you don't like what you're reading in this article, go vegan. Otherwise

Getting eaten alive makes you feel better than euthanizing them quickly?

There's a difference between a quick slaughter for food and torturing something to death for fun.

Suffering and pain are supposed to be minimized no matter what. The pain from the slaughter itself is next to nothing when done properly, and not the reason for the distinctions about which animals it's acceptable to kill.

Why would hunting be torture, but slaughtering not?

Generally out of liking animals to be stunned and not to suffer when they are slaughtered

This is normal in the meat industry. It sucks it happens to test subjects, or any living creature, but this is nothing compared to the daily cruelty inflicted upon innocent animals that we deem "food".

It's vivisection, but hopefully less painfully/traumatically than some slaughterhouses.

If you slaughter the chicken appropriately the animal is stunned than killed, you still take a life but suffering is limited.