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Dave Arnold tried to take euthanized research pigs to cook, back when he worked in, iirc, Dr. Oz's lab. No dice.
by kevinmchugh 5y ago
Dave Arnold tried to take euthanized research pigs to cook, back when he worked in, iirc, Dr. Oz's lab. No dice.
- bayesian_horse 5y agoWell, if they were "euthanized" with narcotics, there are good reasons not to eat them... Or even to give them out to the public for drug addicts to get at.
- cwkoss 5y agoI think an effectively anesthetic dose of narcotics would be low enough, once distributed through the body, that it wouldn't be major issue. Liver, kidneys and GI might have higher concentrations, but I'd imagine pork shoulder would have significantly below 1/100th of a recreational dose per serving size. Nitrous oxide asphyxiation could be quite pleasant for the pig, and there would be little risk to anyone eating the tissue.
- tptacek 5y agoRight; it depends on the circumstances. There are things you can do to a pig that make them unavailable for other uses, but I can say with some authority that there is medical research you can do on a pig that leaves it available. Also, the pigs the boy was working with hadn't been euthanized yet (avoiding euthanizing them was the point of finding someone to take them).