Method and device for stunning cattle for slaughter

摘要

The invention relates to a method for stunning cattle for slaughter, the method comprising the following steps: a. Piercing a skull of the slaughtered cattle with a bolt so that the bolt enters a brain of the slaughter cattle, b. Emitting electromagnetic radiation through a radiation channel within the bolt so that the electromagnetic radiation damages the medulla oblongata and / or a surrounding area of the brain such that signal transmission from the brain is inhibited by a spinal cord of the slaughtered cattle.