Todd,
Before I went into the working world I was attempting to get a graduate
degree in psychology - a combination of cognitive and neuropsych, so I
figure I know a bit about this area. While Lavoisier's death is an
interesting legend, I doubt that it really happened like that. The eye
blinking sounds too much like random spasms which may happen anyhow.
That said, this sort of study begs for replication, any volunteers?
How about if we volunteer others?
larry
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> Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 23:53:11 -0400
> From: "Todd Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: It's still killing, and we're still eating(RE:
> CF-Community-List V1 #243)
> Message-ID: <091801c0d5e0$12e545e0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Actually, killing in a kosher manner is done so the animal
> feels as little
> > pain as possible. The knife must be perfectly sharp (really, really
> sharp),
> > the cut must be very exact and it slices a nerve junction
> and a major
> artery
> > at one shot. The animal is dead instantly.
>
> I'm not convinced there is any such thing as instant death in
> this fashion.
> Back when beheadings were considered "instant death" and the
> guilotine was
> considered a humane form of capital punishment, Antoine
> Lavoisier, who is
> often called the father of modern chemistry because of his role in
> determining the role of oxygen and also because of his
> quantitative approach
> to validating chemical interractions, was sentanced to die by
> the guilotine
> durring the French revolution. Being a true scientist, he
> turned his death
> into an experiment. He told a collegue of his that, after
> his beheading, he
> would blink his eyes as many times as possible before he
> 'died'. He managed
> to blink 14 times after his head was severed from his body ...
>
> Something to think about, no?
>
> > Once that's done, the blood must be totally drained and covered with
> earth.
> > The meat is salted and all the veins are removed. (I'm not
> sure Kosher
> Filet
> > Minion is possible at all).
>
> Not to nit-pick, but how does one totaly drain blood? I
> would imagine that
> some will always stay present in the body, no matter what you
> do. I don't
> know much about butchering animals, but I would think that
> one couldn't get
> all of the residual blood out, completely. I, truely, mean
> no offense, but
> I am curious .. what constitutes "totaly drained"?
>
> > If God wanted us to be vegetarians he wouldn't have made
> animals out of
> > meat.
>
> True .. but then again, if God wanted us to definately eat meat, God
> wouldn't have enabled us to live without doing so ;)
>
> I'm not against eating meat. Actually, I happen to like it [chicken
> parmisean .. yum]. I just figure it's our responsilbilty, as
> the dominant
> species on this planet, to prepare animals for consumption in the most
> painless, stress-free way possible. We certainly have the means, but
> apparently not the desire, often deferring to efficiancy and
> economics. You
> raise me a pig/cow/chicken/whatever that has free run of a farm and a
> pleasant life, until it is quickly slaughtered by some means of
> _instantaneous death_, and I would be happy to have
> Bacon/Hamburgers/Chicken
> TeaQuilla/whatever .. Otherwise, no thanks :)
>
> Todd
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