Briefly, 73 samples were collected from working surfaces and cutting tools (swabs from knife, belt surface, and meat mincer) from slaughtering areas (10 samples), processing areas (19 samples), and points of sale (12 samples) and from workers' hands (20 samples) and workers' toilets (12 samples).
The line keeps moving, taking the birds on to the slaughter area, where three men are standing ready to cut their throats.
The vexed question of what constitutes halal comes down to these few seconds on the line - the period between a bird entering the bath, and leaving the slaughter area.
According to a source who worked at the farm, Fatty was earning 500,000 Thai baht ($14,400) a week killing these animals in a special slaughter area and shipping the carcasses eastwards to be used in food and medicine and as jewellery and home decoration.
When a Virginia state inspector 12 years ago declared that the Polyface poultry slaughter area was unsanitary because it was not enclosed, Salatin fought that decision.
Processing tables and baskets holding freshly cut poultry meat in the slaughter area, as well as display tables and scales in the sale area, were positive in 20 (24%) LBMs surveyed.
Move the carcass to the designated slaughter area.
SPCA inspector Mishack Matlou revealed 300 donkeys have been slaughtered in areas north of Pretoria in the last two years - sometimes hacked to death with machetes.
For these areas, slaughtering should be done in the fall, between October to the first snowfall.
Indeed the remains of the North African/Levantine/European originating population group has even been found 200 miles south of Jebel Sahaba, thus suggesting that the arrow victims were slaughtered in an area where both populations operated.
