Quote Originally Posted by dekaybrown View Post
Shannon, I know an engineer who helped design the clutch assembly for a machine that drops a very heavy blade assembly down on live cows to quarter them in one swift motion

It's over in a split second.

Unfortunately... that's not all slaughterhouses... just some. Some also use the air gun where a metal rod is fired straight into the animal's braincase... there is no more instantaneous death... but unfortunately... it's not the death many of our food animals meet. Ever seen what turkeys and chickens go through? The birds that are too sick or weak to make it to their destination are simply kicked along and thrown. a machine that dangles them by their feet and slides their heads through a thing that slits their throat one after the other, and then they dangle there until the blood has drained... flapping their wings the entire time. I have seen that one myself... it's a wonder they don't just decapitate... but they don't and It puzzles me to no end.

I also beleive that for kosher meats, for beef to be kosher the throat must be slit and the cow must be concious the entire time, and the blood must me allowed to run out of the animal.

Sadly... to add insult to injury... most of these animals are well aware of what is coming to them as their keepers usually kick them, shock them, beat them or drag them to their slaughter area. In some slaughterhouses... the animals before the one being slaughtered can see the other being killed. The smell of blood, the stench of death, knowing that you are about to be slaughtered and having no control, that must be horrible. Prey items for snakes do not face this type of ordeal.

What I am getting at here (i am not trying to go off topic) is that the methods that are used to control and kill our own food is for the MOST part, extremely cruel compared to when a snake eats a mouse, and I just hate seeing people accuse a person like me of being inhumane for feeding my snake what it eats and then going home and eating a steak, not stopping to think of where it came from or how it died. I am not pointing fingers, I just feel very strongly on this topic and deal with it almost daily. My opinions of live feeding will never change and nor will my opinion that we as human beings are monsters and hippocrites. The majority of the time, I am ashamed to be a member of the same species as so many mindless idiotic sheep roaming our planet!