Why aren't animals anesthesized?

Question

I'm against meat-eating, but if you want to argue your 'right' to eat meat, why not at least do this? Convicted murderers on death row are anesthesized before lethal injection (sodium pentothal, followed by pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride). We are able to be humane to convicted killers, but not innocent animals?

Sodium pentothal is the anesthetic. Potassium chloride is the actual lethal injection as it stops the heart.

I'm sure we could find an anesthetic that would dissipate or rapidly break down in the meat.

Answer 1

because it costs too much money to waste that crap. whos gunna stop them from not using anesthesia? exaclty, stfu.

Answer 2

Over 10 billion animals are slaughtered in the U.S. every year for food. Do you really think that with line speeds being what they are, the workers (who are relatively low-skilled) can stop to find the proper vein with which to inject the animal? The captive-bolt stunner misses most of the time, sending conscious animals to slaughter. I don't think trying to inject the animals will work any better--or at all. And even if you could anesthetize the animal, you need to have the anesthetic working while you slaughter the animal, and after the animal is killed, it cannot dissipate, as bodily functions are no longer working to clear it once the animal is dead.

Nobody's eating the bodies of the executed, so they can use all these chemicals. And even so, there's no humane way to kill anyone--convicted murderer or innocent animal.

Answer 3

That's easy... cost. Animals aren't anesthetized because it costs too much money. How else could the general public get a double quarter pounder with cheese for a buck. This is the same reason slaughterhouses don't use bullets... bullets cost 12 cents. The slaughter industry does not care about anything but pennies per pound. As for an anesthetic being consumed by humans... meat packers could give less of a d***. Salmonella, E. Coli... these are the things meat packers KNOW are in your food and do not take out because it slows production times. If it isn't cost effective, it isn't done. Period.

Answer 4

because their blood needs to quickly drain out of their bodies and this is usually done by slitting their throats. if the blood is not drained, the meat will alter sooner and will not taste as well. however, most animals are stunned or asphyxiated before being slaughtered.

if you anesthetize the animal, not only will the meat be contaminated with the anesthetic substance, but it will also make the blood-drainage a lot more difficult, if not impossible, due to the fact that once it stops flowing, the blood begins to clot almost immediately. After an animal or human dies, tissue-necrosis can set in within minutes after death. The brain and internal organs are the first to be affected. "Rigor mortis" sets in within 3 to 4 hours and there's no way you can consume that meat anymore. The onset of rigor mortis and its resolution partially determines the tenderness of meat. If the post-slaughter meat is immediately chilled to 15 degrees C, a phenomenon known as cold shortening occurs, where the muscle shrinks to a third of its original size. This will lead to the loss of water from the meat along with many of the vitamins, minerals, and water soluble proteins. The loss of water makes the meat hard and interferes with the manufacturing of several meat products like cutlet and sausage. To prevent cold shortening, a process known as electrical stimulation is carried out, especially in beef carcass, immediately after slaughter and flaying. In this process, the carcass is stimulated with alternating current, causing it to contract and relax

an anesthetic that would rapidly break down in the meat will need to somehow be eliminated from the organism of the animal. since the animal is dead, i doubt there will be any substance elimination. In order for ANY substance to be flushed out of an organism, the organism needs to function properly and process chemicals. Since the organism is dead, it does not process any chemicals anymore. there is no substance that can just disappear from a body after death. that's why forensic-pathologists are so keen on making postmortems. they tell you everything that was introduced into an organism prior to its death.

Death-row inmates are not exactly anesthetized, they are given Pancuronium Bromide which makes their body partly paralyze after which the other solutions make the blood vessels in his lungs explode. You only think he is anesthetized. He looks relaxed and calm on the outside while his internal organs are going through Armageddon.

Pancuronium bromide is a muscular relaxant which paralyzes the muscles, thus rendering the inmate incapable of movement. It does not have sedative or analgesic effects.

Sodium thiopental is a depressant which decreases neuronal activity. It does not have analgesic effects.

Potassium Chloride is used for making fertilizer. It is extremely toxic in massive dozes, it's the drug that actually does the killing. It causes a massive heart-attack.

Throughout the process of execution by lethal injection, the most "humane" way to commit legal murder, the modern manner in which we legally kill people, the subject is fully able of feeling physical pain which is of the utmost intensity, yet he completely unable to move as much as a finger.

Answer 5

It's all about money. Having to anesthesize animals before slaughtering them would cost factory farmers more money per cow, and sad but true, to these people saving a chunk of change is more valuable than saving a chicken or cow it's misery.

Answer 6

Anaesthetic does not make up for the appalling lives animals are condemned to. Surely you don't need to be told about the horrific conditions meat eaters pay farmers to keep their 'food' animals in. Caged, over-crowded, deprived of acting out natural instincts, often living in their own feces without appropriate food, water or shelter - for their entire miserable lives.

Why do you suddenly care about barbiturates in your meat? what about the growth hormones, pesticides and herbicides? If you're thinking this doesn't happen in Australia think again - your 'hot deli chooks' are only about 6 weeks old! Correct me if i'm wrong, but 6 week old chicks do not grow that big naturally.

Hopefully you think i have my information wrong and look into the facts yourself - i encourage this.

Go vegetarian people - If you have any conscience, care about your health, the planet or your kids future.

Answer 7

Some animals are anesthesized. It depends on the circumstances. If it was a dog that hurts someone then most of the time that animal is put to sleep and sent in for rabies testing. Why would you want to anestesize them if they did nothing wrong?
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Answer 8

because people are too lazy and cheap. i think the argument of contaminating the meat is stupid...the meat is already contaminated with bovine growth hormones, steroids, antibiotics ect. (not to mention all the pathogenic microbes) those dont just go away. they do not bleed out and die immediately after having their throats slit. thats a rediculous statement that doesnt even make sense. of course its going to take a few minutes. i agree with you, animals definately need to be treated with humanity, and they certainly arent getting even basic rights now of proper food, shelter and medical treament.

Answer 9

the way they kill food is different from the way they kill people on death row (who I believe should be executed in highly painful ways).

they kill the food in one of two ways:
1.) slitting the throat - similar to cutting the bottom out of a paper cup, everything drains immediately, causing near-instant death.

2.) blunt force trauma to the forehead - a hammer or similar insturment is swung to a specific spot on the forehead of the animal, with such force that the animal is instantly killed.

anestesia is kinda pointless if you're not going to feel anything afterwards.

note: don't try a nailgun. it won't work, as a friend of mine found out.

Answer 10

maybe the meat eaters just need to eat the convicted killers then there would be less crime and more vegetarians and the meat will have been anesthesized. lol

Answer 11

Wow... I'm really impressed by your knowledge of the chemicals used prior to lethal injection.
But irrespective of that, do you eat beans and ever think about how they must cry when they are picked from their mother plant for manufacture? Baked Beans were once living things as well.