Commentary for Chullin 241:30

תחתון נמי עץ בעלמא הוא

R'Assi stated: Some teach that in the case of an Israelite [slaughtering] an unclean animal and also in the case of a gentile [slaughtering] a clean animal, there must be<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In order that the animal should convey food uncleanness, if it comes into contact with unclean matter, from the moment after the slaughtering, while it still moves about convulsively, until the moment it is dead. Without this express intention it would not be regarded as a foodstuff until it was actually dead.');">¹⁷</span>

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