SC - Request for documentation: Honey Glazed Vegetables

[Michael F. Gunter]

- ---Philip & Susan Troy <troy at spambegone.asan.com> wrote:
>
> Well, yes, they'd have to be removed while still a calf. Good point.
> However, I'd understood that a supposedly more "humane" method was
> becoming widely used, which involves, essentially, putting a
> constricting rubber band around the offending cojones (sp?). This
> apparently interrupts blood flow to/from the area, causing it to 
> more or less dry up and drop off.

Speaking from real, modern farm/ranch experience, yes, this is the
method and result. (Have done my share.) Of course, typically the
"rubber band" is a specially constructed rubber ring and a set of
odd-looking plier-thingies are used to apply it the ring to the
affected portion of the bull-calf... but I helped Grandad on more
than one occasion where normal rubber bands were substituted for the
O-ring-looking castration bands. Typically this was required for
smaller/younger bull-calves.

Note for the purposes of harvesting edible testicles: the banding
method does not allow said harvest. However, the banding method is
ineffective on bull-calves above a certain age and stage of
development, so even in a small herd the prudent rancher keeps a
sharp knife and antibiotic ointment on hand -- and ice in the beer
chest over there in the pickup truck, or a runner willing to deliver
mountain oysters to the kitchen.
 
> NOW, I'm instinctively leaning protectively forward, shielding body
> parts...sure sounds humane to me ;  ) !!!

Adamantius, besides certain SCA-required athletic equipment some of
us who fight heavy make sure that our armor extends well below the
waist!
(And I *still* flinch at certain ideas / visuals / concepts...)

<gryn & ouch>

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