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Re: a commentary on the slaughterhouse piece
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 13 11:29:55 1994
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 11:28:18 EDT
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Oct 94 00:39:26 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 94 07:35:13 -0400
From: burling@media.mit.edu
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I suggest to Jeff that he actually go to a slaughter house.
I would like to read his reaction afterwards.
I have worked on dairy farms. I have traveled 5 hours with
a load of old cows to the slaughter house. I have watched
them die, but in my day there was no electric nailor...
the cow was just hoisted up alive and their throats slit.
Occasionally a cow would make sounds for a second or two even
with its throat slit.
The electric probes were used even back then.
Jeff needs to experience this event. Then he can write about
"travel" being the problem...or "lack of familiar territory".
Oh sure. these are factors. I know. but these factors are
nothing compared to the cows "knowing" that death is about
to come.
bil
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