Does this mean I cannot boil crabs alive?
I've seen people who won't eat fish if the head is on display. A culture of squeamishness.
If you're gonna eat it, its gonna hurt them at some point.
Its food.
You ever seen a halal slaughter? I have in the backyard. Having your throat slits greatly limits your chances of maintaining blood pressure for longer than a couple of seconds. I'd say the electric shock is an unnecessary additional cause of pain. It can't be good for the meat either, probably uses up all the residual ATP in the muscle.
I used a similar process [beheading] for rats. Sometimes we stuck a needle in the heart and took their blood all out first. This is considered humane by laboratory standards. And yeah, I've killed enough rats for lab use that I find such arguments for food specious.
The team first cut calves' throats in a procedure matching that of Jewish and Muslim slaughter methods. They detected a pain signal lasting for up to 2 minutes after the incision. When their throats are cut, calves generally lose consciousness after 10 to 30 seconds, sometimes longer.
The researchers then showed that the pain originates from cutting throat nerves, not from the loss of blood, suggesting the severed nerves send pain signals until the time of death. Finally, they stunned animals 5 seconds after incision and showed that this makes the pain signal disappear instantly.
Somehow animal rights and religion seems like an unhappy marriage. Based on my profound experience with unhappy marriage I would just say never the twain/twixt shall meet.
Of course if you could come up with a religion that advocates for HUMAN rights, you'd be a step closer to finding one amenable to lookin out fer alla godz lil critters. Even the lowliest toxic parasite - somewhere in the class of malaria - needs love, too.
I'm out to lunch on this topic. In every respect. I don't like to eat meat too much not cuz I'm vegan but for some reason it kind of bothers me. Like at some point in my life I realized it kinda stinks. And I can smell it in my sweat. Yuk. Love animals, the cuddly ones, not scorpions or men-o-war or anything that ever attacked me. Dogs, kitties. But if you stare at one long enough, you get the feeling their parasites too. I don't keep any pets because when you have to leave, like to go buy their grub, and you leave them penned up, well to me it's like a jail. Love to play with other people's golden retreivers or shepherds, all those playful ones that like to catch frisbees and jump in the pool. But man do they stink too.