[jambutty]

No meat or fish keeps very long in hot climates Gayle. That’s why they used to salt it or dry it before keeping it cold became fashionable, although salted pork would go off eventually as many a sailor in the ‘good old sailing days’ found out. That’s why they took live animals to sea with them to be slaughtered as required, for the officers of course.

Where did this notion that pigs don’t have a neck come from? Of course a pig has a neck, a short thick one but still a neck and by slashing just below the head it slices the jugular.

2,000 years ago when Christianity was born, fishermen went out in the morning and came back at dusk with their catch. Preserving fish with ice was unknown then so the catch had to be brought in each evening. Leave a freshly caught fish out in the kitchen for 5 days and see what you get.

Ah! Yes panther! But the difference is stunning the animal and not cutting its throat whilst it is conscious.