I don't expect anyone to read that report fully, and it's sadly 21 years old. However, its very existence suggests:
Animal slaughter rules do take minimizing pain, suffering, and panic into consideration. There are also things like practicality, food safety, and safety of the slaughterman to consider, but they don't ignore animal welfare.
Sometimes people tell me they/someone they know/a group of people that they mythologize "have a better way of killing their meat animals" or are "so much more humane than slaughterhouses because they kill the animals instantly!"
Hate to break it to you, but people saying that are, at best, lying to separate themselves from an industry so they can claim superiority, and, at worst, killing animals in a way that is not up to humane standards and therefore more painful and probably illegal if they're selling the meat.
There is a huge body of science here. Some rando with zero knowledge of research or practice regarding animal slaughter isn't going to have a better idea, I'm sorry.
If someone has a better idea that's actually informed by serious research and practice, well, I'd love to hear that, but they should probably talk to the Humane Slaughter Association with their credentials and enormous binder of research first.
I've been to a few slaughterhouses and witnessed them killing the animals, but they wouldn't let me film. An indigenous Sami reindeer herder let me film him slaughtering his reindeer, and I posted the video to IG (TW, animal blood and death, duh) and it was functionally very similar to what I saw in the US slaughterhouses.
Comment section: "How dare you! That's a horrible way to kill an animal!"
Humane slaughter expert I interviewed for the Carcass book (paraphrased): "I'm not allowed to formally rate it unless I'm there in person, but from what I can see, that is a perfect slaughter in line with our standards."
TL;DR: It's ok if you are against slaughtering animals for meat in general, I understand that! But if you take issue with the standard methods, I encourage the realization that animal welfare is of concern and enforcement in slaughter in many/probably most countries, based on years of scientific research!
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