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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting
<br /> Minutes—February 22, 2016
<br /> OK, then what they'll do is inspect the organs, OK, for any abnormalities,
<br /> and then the saw blade is inspected and the carcass is split through the
<br /> vertebrae, so what we have is a half pua'a and it goes directly into the
<br /> chill. Now, you know, a lot of folks would say— what, you skinned the pig?
<br /> And, you know, most locals, OK, they like, you know, if you're gonna have
<br /> a pig for kalua pig or leong chong and stuff like that— you've gotta have
<br /> the skin. So we're working on that, yeah, as far as getting the...
<br /> MA: Yeah... That's one of the advantages of this very small — relatively
<br /> speaking, piece of equipment— is the adaptability to serve very unique
<br /> market segments and so we have the ability to do both whole pig in skin
<br /> as well as a split and cut-into a retail package type of product that most
<br /> consumers would be typically finding in a grocery store environment.
<br /> JE: Then, oh, oh —what happened here — [technical difficulties] —the one
<br /> sent you today... Ah, yesterday. Yeah, I sent you the last one and that
<br /> was to, you know, do away with the other two that I had sent that was just
<br /> basically to test and then I sent the final, yeah, I sent both of you folks the
<br /> final. You didn't get it? Ah? Well, anyway...
<br /> MA: OK.
<br /> JE: Yeah, OK. So...
<br /> MA: No worries, we can explain this very easily.
<br /> JE: This is the same process that we use for the pipi. OK. We had a pipi,
<br /> almost, it weighed about 800 pounds or something?
<br /> MA: Yeah, it was bit smaller— eight, nine hundred pound range.
<br /> JE: Yeah, and, ah, so we did that one and then ah, so, you know, like anything
<br /> it was treated humanely, um, you know, one of the things about this type
<br /> of a firearm that they use — it's a... What is it called?
<br /> MA: It's a — it's a specialized piece of equipment— it's called a captible [sp?]
<br /> stun gun —which isn't in and of itself all that specialized, but because of—
<br /> we have a very high focus on humane animal handling, and, in fact, by
<br /> virtue of this first training event through we received a recommendation
<br /> from the animal welfare approved organization to receive that certification
<br /> so, um, basically, all of our techniques and our equipment have to be
<br /> oriented toward the least invasive and intrusive and stress-inducing
<br /> technologies that are available and so the stun gun is actually very— an
<br /> impressive piece of equipment— extremely heavy and it makes about as
<br /> much noise when it's in operation as one of those little cap guns that kids
<br /> play with — it's a very light pop even though it's a 25 caliber charge and,
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