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- From: cozzlab@garnet.berkeley.edu ()
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- Subject: Re: Needles
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:59:55 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <721953922.F00001@ocitor.fidonet> Beth.Appleton@f4229.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Beth Appleton) writes:
- >
- > Good sir, is it necessary that the pig die to produce its bristles?
-
- Generally, as I understand it, pig bristle harvesting is part of the
- slaughtering routine. You scald the dead pig and then scrape its hide
- (with the base of a brass candlestick, according to Dorothy Hartley)
- and the bristles come out, along with the top layer of skin, and then
- the pig can be skinned and the hide processed into leather.
-
- I do not think I would want to try to extract the bristles from a live
- pig, I think the pig would resent it quite a lot and take effective
- action!!
-
-
- Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin Dorothy J. Heydt
- Mists/Mists/West Albany CA
- Argent, a cross forme'e sable
-
- Disclaimer: This is the Cozzarelli Lab's account, not mine--but I don't
- think anybody else ever reads it.
-