No slaughterer, packer or stockyard operator shall shackle, hoist, or otherwise bring livestock into position for slaughter by any method which shall cause injury or pain, nor bleed or slaughter any livestock except by a humane method.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 94, § 139D
Humane method of slaughter
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