[KS] Re: Cats next?!

[Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke, Ph.D.]

I find this thread both fascinating and nauseating.  I have a factual (?)
question.  Several posts have referred to the "benefits" of beating or
otherwise significantly traumatizing the animal in question (boiling the
cat alive) in order to "release adrenaline" "tenderinze the meat" etc.  I
recall reading an article on animal slaughter in the U.S. (cattle).  The
entire thrust of the article was that one of the motivations underlying
more "humane" forms of slaughter was to REDUCE the amoung of adrenaline
and other stress hormones released just prior to death in order to IMPROVE
the quality of the meat.  There seems to be a direct contradiciton.  Can
anyone reply?

Liz Ten Dyke, Ph.D.
Kingston NY

By the way, I am an anthropologists who has often lectured (to
undergraduates, anyway) on cultural relativism, and the limits of cultural
relativism.  Boy is this discussion pushing me to my own limits (that is,
my ability to recognize that practices/habits of others may make sense to
them, in the context of their own lives, belief systems, social
relationships, etc., even though they are incomprehensible to me in the
context of my own.  Yes, and I eat meat.  Boy does life get confusing
sometimes).




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