In Western slaughterhouses it's actually quite common for animals to begin to be dismembered before they're dead. Often they're stunned with an electric shock and then the cutting starts. In a different style of factory farming, animals (even large ones like cows) are strung upside by their hind legs and then go down the conveyer belt to get their throats cut.
Obviously the chinese example is extreme but the whole commercial meat industry is really fucked.
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