Are you a vegetarian? If not, then how do you expect to eat the steaks you eat, or the hamburgers you chow down on? Look at the cow and give it a nice bath, a scrub down, pat it's belly, tell it you love it, then give it a painless shot which kills it but instills joyfull thoughts, pleasures and memories into its head so that it feels the best it ever has?
Many things can be done differently, such as killing the animals before they are skinned, but they are not. Maybe you should create an organization which promotes the more humane slaughtering of animals.
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And if you did, I'm sure many of the more reasonable people would support you. Those who agree that while the killing of animals is necessarry for life, it should be done in a way other than tying them up and twisting till thier back breaks or running around with a spiked pole and bashing thier heads in only to immobilize them and then skinning them alive, or flayling them around by the tail till they are immoble.