X-Message-Number: 15671
From: "Brett Bellmore" <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #15655 - #15663
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:13:33 -0500

From Brett Bellmore

As I pointed out to Ettinger some time during the previous century, ;) their
sheep head experiments could be put on a sounder scientific footing at very
little expense.

Sheep are domestic animals. They're edible. A program could be arranged by
which CI members buy live sheep, the research is done on the spot when
they're privately slaughtered, and then the member gets the mutton. The
heads amount to free byproducts of the meat purchase. The same could be done
with other domestic animals, such as pigs or cattle. CI does it's research
with heads of precisely known history, and the members get meat at a
discount. Everyone is happy.

About the only complication of this would be the need to move a portion of
CI's research facilities to some place where handling livestock and
slaughtering animals would be feasible. I suspect, though I don't know this
for certain, that the required equipment could fit in a van, and be set up
temporarily in the the garage of a rural member. I'm assuming that CI DOES
have rural members.

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