A first of its kind program, the Humane Handling Institute, will provide comprehensive hands-on training for current meat industry workers in humane pre-slaughter handling, transport, stunning, and equipment maintenance. Kurt Vogel, Humane Handling Institute Director, shares an update into the timeline of where the institute is at, what they are working on, and their new pilot program.

They are in an ordering phase where they’re ordering a lot of tools to teach maintenance and repair of stunning equipment. These will be put into six different rolling cart stations, so they can have a set of tools in each. 

“Additionally, we have ordered model animal heads such as cattle, sheep and pig, that are going to be used to train captive bolt stunning and euthanasia,” says Ashlynn Kirk, Humane Handling Institute program manager. 

Vogel says they have been getting flooded with emails of interest in the institute which is set to roll out in the fall of 2023.

A first of its kind program, the Humane Handling Institute, will provide comprehensive hands-on training for current meat industry workers in humane pre-slaughter handling, transport, stunning, and equipment maintenance. Kurt Vogel, Humane Handling Institute Director, shares an update into the timeline of where the institute is at, what they are working on, and their new pilot program.
They are in an ordering phase where they’re ordering a lot of tools to teach maintenance and repair of stunning equipment. These will be put into six different rolling cart stations, so they can have a set of tools in each. 
“Additionally, we have ordered model animal heads such as cattle, sheep and pig, that are going to be used to train captive bolt stunning and euthanasia,” says Ashlynn Kirk, Humane Handling Institute program manager. 
Vogel says they have been getting flooded with emails of interest in the institute which is set to roll out in the fall of 2023.

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