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- From: g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh)
- Subject: Re: Eating killed animals (was Re: Gun Control Petition)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.150404.29387@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- References: <viking.724844389@vincent2.iastate.edu> <1992Dec20.185357.3931@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <viking.724916100@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:04:04 GMT
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- In article <viking.724916100@vincent2.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
- [...]
- > Now then, on the front end you place a pair of specialized
- >pliers over the horns and squeeze. The horn is pulled cleanly from the
- >skull socket, exposing the artery. The artery is then grabbed with a
- >hemostats, stretched, and snipped with a scissors. This causes the
- >artery to retract into the skull and clot. A few shakes of sulfa
- >powder to fight infection and that end is done.
-
- Is any anesthetic used? Is the procedure done by people with veterinary
- training?
- >
- > At the back end, you first take your scalpel or X-acto knife
- >(replacing blades is easier than honing a scalpel multiple times). Cut
- >the bottom of the sack off. That should be done in one stroke. The
- >testicles fall out of their own accord, dangling from their tendons.
- >Grab the whole mess, wrap it in a simple half-hitch knot, pull it snug,
- >and cut below the knot. Shake some sulfa powder into the now-empty sack
- >and you're done with that end. A good individual can have this done in
- >about ten seconds. Inject any anti-biotics that may be necessary for
- >that particular herd to prevent catching the pnuemonia your neighbor's
- >herd has, for example, and let him loose. Total time? Thirty seconds
- >if you're slow about it and take his temperature too.
-
- Again, is any anesthetic used? Is the procedure done by people with
- veterinary training?
-
- A while back I posted excerpts of an article from _Cattleman_ magazine,
- a Canadian beef industry journal, in talk.politics.animals. The article
- indicated that both the surgical and elastrator methods of castration caused
- some pain. If anyone cares I can repost the article next week when I return
- from my holiday.
-
- [...]
- > Note this isn't just what I've seen, it's what I've done for
- >years. It is also, in my experience, more typical than the abuses
- >Rosemary had recited from _Diet for a New America_ I believe it was.
-
- To me what you have described is abusive, and is comparable to what is
- documented in _Diet_for_a_new_America_.
- --
- Rosemary Waigh Undergraduate, Computer Science / Linguistics
- g9rwaigh@cdf.utoronto.ca University of Toronto
- "Looking at the Earth from afar you realize it is too small
- for conflict and just big enough for co-operation." Yuri Gagarin
-