 Concerns about religious slaughter focus on the stress caused during the preparation stages before the slaughtering, pain and distress that may be experienced during and after the neck cutting and the worry of a prolonged period of time of lost brain function during the points between death and preparation if a stunning technique such as electronarcosis is not applied.In the United States, many public protest slaughters were held in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the National Farmers Organization.Protesting low prices for meat, farmers would kill their own animals in front of media representatives.