I will admit that I am not familiar with the butcher process for pigs and cattle, but I highly doubt they disembowel the cow and or rip calves from wombs, that is unnecessary.
They were chucking spears at the whales like some backwards hellhole in Africa.
“I will admit that I am not familiar with the butcher process for pigs and cattle, but I highly doubt they disembowel the cow and or rip calves from wombs, that is unnecessary.
They were chucking spears at the whales like some backwards hellhole in Africa.”
You have no idea about butchering.The first thing that is done is the animal is hung and gutted.
It's the second step of the butchering process (after the kill). You have to separate the meat from the guts that will quickly contaminate it. With four legged animals you hang them by the head and slice open the entire length of the abdomen so all the organs (bowels included) can come spilling out.
How else would you go about butchering a pregnant cow?
Apparently you are unfamiliar with processing the meat of most ANY animal, reindeer, cattle, chickens, pigs, catfish, gators, whatever. American indians prized fetal "buffalo" calves for their excellent meat, and when they drove herds of bison off "jumps" or cliffs to kill them they didn't sort out the pregnant females first so as to avoid harming them. It was a vital way of life to kill bison this way before the Indians learned about horses.
Since meat spoils the warmer it gets- and the bigger the animal is the more critical it is- you open it up immediately so as to cool it off faster, propping it open with a stick if need be. A whale having blubber and all probably needs to be gutted extra swiftly because bacteria would multiply like crazy inside all that insulation. The guts have to be removed as quickly as possible, because guts have a lot of bacteria in them, not to mention the intestines are loaded with excrement.
Now if you're butchering a caribou and live in the far north where vitamin C is scarce the tradition was to pull out the stomach and open that up to get at the mosses and lichens the caribou ate and partially digested. People had to eat that. It's gross, but it was a lifesaver in the times before pharmacies. You could then use the empty stomach as a container.
If an animal happens to be pregnant you still have to gut it, and since the calf is in the gut, then it has to come out. You can't work around it just because there's some folks out there who think their chicken tenders and burgers are grown on vines who can't stomach the sight.
Once you gut the pregnant animal then you pull the calf out of the gut pile and gut the calf as well. The hunter's usually going to want the livers, hearts, and other parts of both animals. No point in wasting any of it.
Is it a pretty sight? No. Lion kills or aren't pretty to look at either, particlularly if you like gazelles. Neither is it a pretty sight when orcas kill other cetaceans- and killer whales do target the young and the weak. I doubt the neatural predators of whales give much thought to how it looks when they tear open their prey.
Believe me, it isn't a pretty sight to see those chickens get killed to make chicken tenders, or a pig- an animal at least as intelligent as a dog- get killed for those baby back ribs. At least the whales weren't raised in a tiny pen or cage with no life experiences at all as is much of our food supply, and gorged on by people who eat as much as they do because they didn't have to do their own killing.