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"Benign Vanilla" wrote:

There are, http://www.unmc.edu/Education/Animal/guide/appenG8.html.


Great link!
Thank you!

I quote from http://www.fda.gov/cvm/guidance/guide150.pdf
"...neither clove oil nor any individual active ingredient of
clove oil (eugenol, isoeugenol, or methyleugenol) is approved
for use for the anesthesia of fish."

That's from the FDA/CVM -- Center for Veterinary Medicine.
The document mentioned earlier from UNMC also doesn't list
eugenol or clove oil.

Now, I strongly suspect this actually means as a treatment
for animals being raised as human foods.

But I still maintain that the best way is to put them in
a tupperware or ziplock container full of water, put it
in the freezer, shut the door, and don't look until it's
a solid block. Whether they feel pain or not is less important
than how _I_ feel if I see them struggle or if I am forced to
bash them with a hammer.

Gunther