Re: Feo2: selective death delivery


Posted by Amaranth Rose on Apr 22, 2004 at 16:56
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Re: Feo2: selective death delivery (Feo Amante)

I remember that discussion somewhat. It's interesting that in all that discussion no one, myself included, thought to bring up the one piece of information that was very carefully missing from that article. What was carefully skirted and thoughtfully omitted was the fact that nicotine kills in large enough quantities, and it doesn't take much. It is a major ingredient in some insect poisons. Small animals, particularly pet dogs, succumb readily when they ingest the butt ends. So do children, who make no distinction between what mummy or daddy puts to their lips and food to be eaten. A child eating a cigarete, cigar or snuff (chewing tobacco) should never be a cause for amusement; it is a clear and present danger. It doesn't take much. Even animals such as goats, with a high level of curiosity and rather inclusive dietary tastes, have been known to succumb to nicotine poisoning.

In the 1960's my father invented a radio tracking device in a collar that was used to track the movement of white-tailed deer in conjunction with the wildlife science dept. at Texas A & M University. At that time they were hand built, a number of them in our garage, and applied to the deer with lots and lots of black electrical tape.

The deer of course took exception to this, so they used a "tranquilizer dart" to bring the deer down and immobilize them while the researchers hastily taped on the collars. They employed the services of an expert marksman to dart the deer. After the deer went down, there was a mad scramble to get to the downed animal as fast as humanly possible so they could administer CPR to keep it from dying. Nicotine paralyzes the heart muscle temporarily, so I've been told.

They were collaring deer on Welder Wildlife Refuge in central Texas one weekend. They'd just shot a deer, and were waiting for it to drop, when a carful of tourists drove up. The driver got out and ran over, asking them who they thought they were, shooting deer on a wildlife refuge anyway. You must realize these were kinder, gentler times. These days anyone with a lick of sense would turn around and drive away like mad and pray they hadn't been seen.

The marksman calmly explained what they were doing while the others ran out and collared the deer and rescuscitated it. I think they used a shot of atropine, though don't quote me on that. The man asked what they were doing, and he explained that they had to administer CPR to keep the deer alive until they administered an antidote. The man asked what they used to bring the deer down.

"Nicotine," Sharpy replied. "The same thing that's in your cigarette," he pointed out bluntly.

The man stared at him, looked at the deer for a minute, looked at the cigarette in his hand for a long time, then dropped it on the ground and stepped on it, crushing it out, before he turned and walked away.

Makes you think, perhaps.


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