Re: How Sarah Palin Created a Whole New Generation of Vegetarians

<dh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:28tcj45mk1t8me0sas3is1dshse0l240h2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>>>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:33:34 -0200, dh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> >>>>>>Also when clubbing an animal and it goes into its death throes,
you
> >>>>>>can quit pounding because the job is done. Really it's better to
hit
> >>>>>>right where the neck goes into the base of the scull when you can

'Brain Stem: The brain stem connects the cerebrum with the spinal cord.
It contains a system of nerve cells and fibers (called the reticular
activating
system) located deep within the upper part of the brain stem. This system
controls levels of consciousness and alertness.

The brain stem also automatically regulates critical body functions, such
as
breathing, swallowing, blood pressure, and heartbeat, and it helps adjust
posture. If the entire brain stem becomes severely damaged, consciousness
is lost, and these automatic body functions cease. Death soon follows.
...'
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec06/ch076/ch076b.html

> >>>>past it on the skunk's head side, giving it a good hard whack
> >>>>on the head with nice club on the way by, then of course ran
> >>>>quickly out the other side of the imaginary circle. I didn't have
> >>>>to hurry though Goo, because it was layed out pretty good. It
> >>>>was still squirting a bit, but was laying on its side and couldn't
> >>>>get up. I wasted no time to see just how bad off it was, but
> >>>>ran right back in and finished the job. Expecting the death
> >>>>throes--and certainly looking forward to seeing them and the
> >>>>end of that bull**** so I could put the poor stinking beast in a
hole
> >>>>and cover it up!--I again went with the whack and run approach.
> >>>>It's good that I did Goober, because in the throes the skunk was
> >>>>again spraying hard and in all directions as it thrashed in death.
> >>>>The farmers--and other people--have told me it's the muscles
> >>>>contracting Goob, but I think there's more to it than that or
> >>>>they would probably just contract.

'Effective stunning (i.e. loss of consciousness) will be achieved by focal
damage to the brain stem or diffuse and severe damage to the cerebral
cortices.

The most efficient way to render an animal unconscious by a blow to the
head, is a blow to the brain stem. The brain stem in mammals is the most
highly protected part of the central nervous system. It is located
ventrally within the calveria, beneath the cerebellum and overlying skull.
Furthermore, in seals, flexion of the neck places a thick layer of blubber
over the base of the skull. Therefore, the only target area available in a
seal is the skull overlying the cerebral cortex. Delivering a blow to this
area and the underlying cortex is a much less efficient way of rendering
an animal unconscious.

Diffuse and severe damage only to the cerebral cortices can result in
significant disruption of the ascending reticular activating system,
resulting in unconsciousness, which may be tem****ary i.e. conscious
sensation may return.

A large blow to the cerebral cortex is unlikely to result in immediate
brain stem herniation. Cerebral oedema can elicit herniation but only
after a considerable time period (potentially hours). Massive cerebral
haemorrhage associated with a blunt external trauma would be unlikely
to occur and result in immediate death.
...'
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/dfiles/file_95.pdf

>     The first thing I ever clubbed was a groundhog Goob. I didn't
> know about the death throes yet...in fact that's when I learned.
> I had seen a duck go through them when it had its throat cut
> by one of the farmers,

'Most animals which are slaughtered in the EU for human consumption
are killed by cutting major blood vessels in the neck or thorax so that
rapid blood loss occurs. If not stunned, the animal becomes
unconscious only after a certain degree of blood loss has occurred
whilst after greater blood loss, death will ensue. The animals which are
slaughtered have systems for detecting and feeling pain and, as a result
of the cut and the blood loss, if not stunned, their welfare will be poor
because of pain, fear and other adverse effects. The cuts which are used
in order that rapid bleeding occurs involve substantial tissue damage in
areas well supplied with pain receptors. The rapid decrease in blood
pressure which follows the blood loss is readily detected by the
conscious animal and elicits fear and panic. Poor welfare also results
when conscious animals inhale blood because of bleeding into the
trachea. Without stunning, the time between cutting through the
major blood vessels and insensibility, as deduced from behavioural
and brain response, is up to 20 seconds in sheep, up to 25 seconds in
pigs, up to 2 minutes in cattle, up to 2 1/2 or more minutes in poultry,
and sometimes 15 minutes or more in fish.
...'
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/Scientific_Opinion/opinion_ahaw_02_ej45_stunning_en.pdf?ssbinary=true

> but I didn't understand until after I killed
> that groundhog. After the first couple of blows it was dead and
> convulsing, but I thought it was still alive and struggling so I kept
> on hitting it and hitting it until its head was a flat smashed mass
> and STILL it kept "struggling".

So much for 'consideration for lives'.  You're a very sick puppy, dh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]