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An apparatus for removing hair from the skin of slaughtered animals including a chamber having a top, bottom and a dielectric lateral wall between the top and the bottom of the chamber which acts as a thermal barrier and defines an interior space for receiving an animal and is provided with at least one static electricity emitter positioned on the lateral wall of the chamber, a conduit for supplying combustible fluid to the chamber an ignitor for the combustible fluid, and a support for an animal extending transversely through the interior space of the chamber. A method for removing hair from the skin of a slaughtered animal by charging hair on the skin of slaughtered animals with electricity prior to burning the hair without damaging the skin of the animal which involves first positioning the skin of a slaughtered animal in a field of electrostatic force, exposing the hair on the skin of the animal to a combustible fluid, and igniting the combustible fluid to burn the hair on the skin on the animal so as to avoid damaging the skin of the animal.
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