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- From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
- Subject: Re: Eating killed animals (was Re: Gun Control Petition)
- Message-ID: <schuck.725650169@sfu.ca>
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- Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <viking.724844389@vincent2.iastate.edu> <1992Dec20.185357.3931@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <viking.724916100@vincent2.iastate.edu> <1992Dec23.150404.29387@cdf.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:29:29 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
-
- >In article <viking.724916100@vincent2.iastate.edu> viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson) writes:
-
- >> 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.
- ^^^^^
-
- >To me what you have described is abusive, and is comparable to what is
- >documented in _Diet_for_a_new_America_.
-
- Are you *really* implying that any medical procedure that has an
- element of pain is *abusive*??????
-
- Does that mean dentists are *abusive* ?
-
- How about nurses when they poke your arm several times trying to find
- a vein when they need blood?
-
- How about any surgical or medical procedure on animals or humans that
- causes pain? I could list hundreds.
-
- According to you and your *book* -- *pain* of any kind is now
- considered abusive.
-
- Loony tunes!
-