Some of the dogs used for culinary uses are killed by immersing them in boiling water, after dislocating their shoulders in order to store them 9tied to a stick).

It is NOT fast, ive seen it (thankfully on film and not first hand). Boiling is a slow death for anything - it burns the outer skin and almost insulates the inner core tissues, prolonging death.

Crushing is hit and miss aswell. You'd have to make sure you basically turned them into paste, as inverts have a pretty awesome capacity to have parts of them crushed and still function. You could decaptitate your stick insects,and bet they would still twitch for minutes - its debatable if they are truly alive or not, but why chance it?

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B. Schroederi (slings)
Grammostola sp. "North" Northern gold
G. aurerostriata (slings)
Cyclosternum fasciatum (slings)

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I freeze mine.

I don't think I'd have the stomach to crush one of my mantids

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God this world is really shocking sometimes! Thanks for replying!

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yes, yes it is. I thought that was common knowledge that boiling went on...its mainly as streaming is thought to be tastier or some crap.

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Brachypelma albopilosum (Charlotte)
B. Schroederi (slings)
Grammostola sp. "North" Northern gold
G. aurerostriata (slings)
Cyclosternum fasciatum (slings)

Member of the BAS and AAS.