'Bambi Butchers' Horror

On August 26, 2007, a PETA investigator filmed the slaughter of deer at Musicon, Inc., a deer farm and venison sales company in Goshen, New York.

Deer are high-strung, extremely nervous herd animals, so any handling—especially by humans in a loud, strange indoor environment—is frightening to them. Our investigator documented that a worker at Musicon was kneeling on frightened deer's backs in order to restrain the animals and then yanking their heads back by their ears and antlers to expose their throats—which were then slit while the deer were still conscious. Some deer also had a restraint door slammed on their heads as they were bleeding to death. The animals remained conscious for up to a minute and a half after their throats were cut, and in one instance, a deer was yanked from the restraint pen by the bleeding hole in her neck while still conscious.

Please e-mail Norman Schlaff, the owner of Musicon, urging him to switch to a business that doesn't involve taking semi-wild, nervous animals and subjecting them to this type of trauma and suffering.