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Originally Posted by spidergecko
I didn't really want to get into this discussion (I don't like the idea of killing any mammal) but animals don't choke on CO2. There is nothing to choke on since CO2 is non-toxic.
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I choke on CO2 & so does just about any other animal, mammal or otherwise. Drop a pound of dry ice into an ice chest & let it sublime into gas, then stick your head in & take a deep breath. Don't worry, you will be choking & outta there PDQ. It's mostly a matter of concentration (partial pressure, actually, but that's getting too far into the fine print), but CO2 is lethal at concentrations well below the level of being intolerably unpleasant. If you are careful enough, CO2 can be used as an anesthetic, provided you have no qualms about torturing your patient. The sadists you see on some popular television programs using CO2 as an anesthetic are in very serious need of a bit of personal experience from their victim's point of view. CO2 isn't used as an anesthetic for humans because it is acutely unpleasant & there is very little margin between temporarily unconscious & permanently dead. CO2 is cheap, though & is readily available, even to expressing carriers of The Stupid Gene.
CO2 would be wonderful as a nocithanasia agent for deserving individuals, but impractical on account of those pesky rules about cruel & unusual.
Some slaughterhouses use electrostunning, but the equipment is rather specialized, expensive, & dangerous. Others take the simple route of using a "basher" or a "knocker" - a big strong hulking brute with a deadblow (lead shot inside a tough plastic head) mallet, applied vigorously pretty much straight down on the top center of the head.
Bash the feeders' heads in & get it over with. Snapping their necks does kill 'em, but they're still looking atcha for a while before their brain runs out of O2
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