the morbid me

This gives an account of morbid tales of slaughter as narrated by a friend of mine.
Coming to the smallest of the animals, a chicken. It is held by its legs and its head is banged on to a wall, that's it, the little fellow is dead and out. If I remember correctly, a 'broiler' will be killed instantly in such a process, but a 'poultry' has a stronger will to live, I guess. A chopper can also be used to do this job. Here, if you are a Hindu, you will have to hit the neck, and if a Muslim, then cut the throat. A Muslim do it with two and a half strokes of his knife, each stroke accompanied by the Almighty's name. The religious distinction as regards the method of slaughtering holds for any animal; any damn animal.
Next comes a goat, a supposedly big animal. A rope is tied around its neck, passing through its horns and fastened to a tree. At this point I thought they might be strangulating the goat, but never had I heard of strangulating a goat to its death, and neither was I on the right track. Once secured to the tree, the goat is physically stretched by somebody holding its front legs and somebody else the rear ones. Having done that a strong swing of chopper is all that is needed to put an end to the goat's life. If you are quick enough, you can collect the spilt blood which will coagulate on adding some ingredient; and this my friend says tastes extremely delicious on frying.
Coming to the hulk of an animal: the cow/bull. It is locked up in a cage like the one they have in a veterinary hospital for livestock mating/vaccination. Then about a dozen men force the cow to sit down by using wooden logs placed on her back. Once motionless, the cow -- perhaps the most serenely innocent of all the domesticated beasts -- is slaughtered. Just imagine the huge quantity of meat. Even if half of it (let's say 200 kg) is turned into productive meat, it can very well host a feast for about 400 people.
One might ask at the end, when and how did I start with this topic; why after all?! Well, it all began with a video clip on seeing which a friend of mine was almost about to puke, puke with disgust, fear, horror and what not. The video -- downloaded from BBC site -- showed a couple of men standing by the side of a third one who was lying on the ground blindfold. One of the men standing produced a chopper and started sawing the helpless person's neck, just as one would saw off a log. With half of his neck cut and blood gushing out as milk would from a split milk pouch, the man's chest, pretty much involuntarily, I believe, was gasping for air. This went on for a few seconds, before the man resumed his job, and sawed the head completely off the rest of his body, and placed it on his torso. What followed seemed quite sober: shooting down people.
That's it, I guess!

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When the Unwanted Guest arrives
I might be afraid
I might smile or say:
My day was good, let night fall.
You will find the fields ploughed, the house clean,
The table set,
And everything in its place.

-- Paulo Coelho in The Zahir