But I absolutely, categorically, emphatically, absolutely abhor cruelty against animals. It drives me crazy to see it. During my years working with medical devices, it drove me utterly insane to see safety and efficacy testing being done on live animals.
Of several such cases, I can talk with mastery about RF technology used in pacemakers and the tests used for it. The body phantom, a sugar solution which “claims” to be equivalent to a human body, is utter garbage. NO, it is NOT! I do not know which moron created the body phantom, and which quarter-wit decided it was indicative of the insertion losses in the RF link for the link budget. Honestly, you barely have space for a linearly polarized (LP) wire which “pretends” to be an antenna in the pacemaker. Now add to it -16dB loss at cross polarization with the base station antenna (if LP) or less than ½ power at -4dB with a circularly polarized antenna. What about multi path? Never seen advanced signaling (QAM-DFE, etc) being used here. And I have actually heard so-called experts confide to me that multi-path is what actually makes this garbage link work. And have you seen how the test is structured and performed? The placement of the pacemaker in the body phantom cavity makes the whole test a joke.
And to top it all: putting a pacemaker in a Labrador to see the strength of the RF link of the pacemaker to the base station is total absolute garbage.
No, it is not indicative. We have not researched the losses due to various human cells, bone, blood, flesh, fat. And you want to tell me a young dog, with completely different physiology is similar to a 300lb over-weight lard bag who has stuffed him/herself stupid with 20lbs of burgers and fries and 2 gallon bottles of sugary soft-drinks every day of their life? Does it make sense?
Let’s do a comparison: let’s shoot a projectile through a cardboard box and approve it to pass through reinforced concrete. Get the difference?
But hey, the placebo of “tested on live animals” is a big peace of mind for the uneducated masses, isn’t it? Shame on the regulatory agencies for doing this charade.
Moving on to Far East Asia, where it is believed that the more cruelly you kill the animal, the bigger is your boner when you eat it. Evidently, when the animal dies in a rage, that rage somehow passes on to your schlong.
Look, let’s put aside jokes about Chinese penis size at this time, and consider the science behind it. When in extreme duress, a body releases adrenalin to give that last bit of super-human strength and endorphin to be able to bear that extreme pain. And neither chemical has anything to do with copulatory organs. If you don’t believe me, try dropping a heavy bowling ball on your foot, then try to copulate. Trust me, you have the same chemicals being released by your brain. And the chemicals are actually in your blood stream, working. Not some hocus pocus wherein it is in the blood of the animal you eat, and hope will get transferred to you.
Did it work? Maybe you need something bigger, like an anvil on your head like in a Looney Tunes cartoon?
I have seen videos of helpless dogs being strung up by their neck (like they hang gays in Iran), and a man bludgeoning it to death with a stick. Evidently this dog’s meat will mean the schlong will get to its full height potential of 1 and ¾ inch!
Want a free tip? Eat garlic. Clear your arteries, and your ED might go away. And if that doesn’t work, pick up a book and learn where the clitoris is and learn to use your tongue. Don’t torture dogs!
Halaal.
I have actually seen this with my own eyes during a trip to India. Scene: butcher’s shop in Mumbai. Butcher takes 10 live chickens, slits their throats one by one – does not sever it, merely slices the jugular, and then shoves the live chicken in to a huge plastic drum. Covers the lid, and goes about his business.
What do you think is happening to the birds? They are flapping their wings, they are going insane with pain. When the butcher finally took the corpses out, the feathers were covered with blood, and it was a gruesome sight.
Or take the video from Gaza, a cow is brought in a truck. Its jugular is slit. Of course it doesn’t die immediately. It is in grotesque pain and fear as its life is flowing out, it tries to escape. So men proceed to slice through its Achilles tendons. Which means the cow’s knees buckle… and it is effectively walking on its knees… trying to escape, while bleeding profusely.
Right now it is Eid-ul-adha, wherein billions of animals the world over are facing this barbaric ritual en-masse. Why? Because God evidently was feeling insecure and asked Abraham to kill his own son to see if Abraham was loyal to him.
So God is the father of Abraham and thus Isaac is his grandson. So the father is asking the son to brutally murder his only grandson to see if son is totally brainwashed. Makes sense.
But let’s not talk about religion. That’s one topic that has no answers, just problems.
Sure, kill the animals. Go right ahead, kill them, but make sure you eat the flesh, use the leather, wool, fur, horns, etc. Utilize the sacrifice of the animal to the fullest extent.
But why do you have to kill it in agony? The BVA (British Veterinary Association) and RSPCA (Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) have categorically stated that halaal or the shechita methods are not painless.
Religious nuts will say that draining the blood makes it “healthier”.
Really? Well the USDA / FDA has failed to prove there are nutritional differences between Halaal and non-halaal meats. And even if someone said that unless blood is drained completely, it will clot inside and rot faster. That makes sense in the 7th century hot Arabian peninsula without refrigerators. But don’t we have refrigeration these days?
As for blood containing toxins… really? And where are the toxins coming from? The thin air? Last time I checked, cells create waste during energy generation which is then transported by blood to waste recycling centers. So if you are that concerned about toxins, why eat meat at all?
And if you consider science: the less an animal struggles, the better the meat. When animals face trauma, the glycogen content in their muscles is activated, leaving the meat tough. Stored glycogen is the agent that leads to rigor mortis (or, stiffening of muscles on death).
For the meat to be tender and juicy, the pH count in the animal should ideally be around 5.4 after slaughter. Struggle leads to the utilization of stored energy, making the pH count rise to as high as 7.
So no, making the animal face agony is not making the meat any better.
And if you want to play the religion card, then I herewith adopt
Hunting / Sportsmen.
I abhor “sportsmen” of this type. I played Rugby for my University in New York. The Football team had the largest in-door stadium in North America for practice, and uniforms, cheerleaders, money to burn. On the other hand, we had a snow and slush covered field outside a dining hall to train on. We had two coaches, an ex-US marine Diego and an ex-Royal Marine Nigel (last names withheld) who trained us. They thought nothing of making 7-feet-tall beef cakes climb on the backs of 6-feet-tall players and make them climb slushy, muddy slopes at a 35-degree angle in the bitter Upstate New York winter. (Side note: Lithuanian winters are not really that scary, when you grow up with lake effect snow.) My lungs used to scream for mercy, my legs used to tremble. At every single day of the year, at least 2 members of the team had black eyes / fractured bones / bandages / splints / hemorrhages, etc. Yes, we were sportsmen. We played for the sheer love of the sport, we didn’t get any incentives.
Now compare that with an overweight redneck with a shotgun and room-temperature IQ (we use Fahrenheit – 70 Degrees). He hires a skilled tracker, drives to the zone, shoots a helpless animal and BAM!
Whoaaa there Mr. Fudd! You are now a sportsman! You got the wascawwy wabbit!
How about you strip to your undies, lose the fancy spray gun and hunt Bear Grylls style? Now that’s sport, pitting wit, strength, stamina against primal forces to survive.
I do not believe that the world and its denizens are “resources” for humans to consume. It is a shared asset for everyone in the planet to co-exist on.
Without respect your marriage won’t last, so how dare you to think something so much more complicated like an ecosystem would function without it?
Animals are our friends, our companions. A lion or a deer is important to the ecosystem of the planet, where as we human beings are just the cause of an extinction event.
We should know our place and stop this madness. Animal cruelty has to stop. Period.
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