Mesorat%20hashas for Zevachim 100:13

אמר ר' מאיר קל וחומר ומה נבלת בהמה שמטמאה במגע ובמשא שחיטתה מטהרת טריפתה מטומאתה נבילת עוף שאין מטמא במגע ובמשא אינו דין שתהא שחיטתה מטהרת טריפתה מטומאתה מה מצינו בשחיטה שמכשרתה באכילה

then a kal wa-homer, which is learnt through a hekkesh, in accordance with the school of R'Ishmael, can surely teach through a kal wa-homer! And this is a kal wa-homer derived from a kal wa-homer. Can that which is learnt by a kal wa-homer teach in turn through a binyan ab? - Said R'Jeremiah, Come and hear: If one wrung the neck [of a bird sacrifice] and it was found to be a terefah, R'Meir said: It does no defile in the gullet; R'Judah said: It does defile in the gullet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A bird sin-offering was not slaughtered by the usual ritual method (shechitah) , but had its neck wrung. If an ordinary bird of hullin, or any animal, is killed by any method other than shechitah, it becomes nebelah (carrion) . The term terefah is applied to a bird or an animal which was ritually slaughtered, but which was found to be suffering from a disease or other physical defect which renders it forbidden as food. Now when a clean animal, i.e., one permitted for food, becomes nebelah, it defiles any person who touches it or even carries it without actually touching it. A clean bird which becomes nebelah does not defile thus, but only the person who eats it, i.e., when it enters his gullet. In the present instance the bird's neck was wrung; had it been hullin, it would have become nebelah, and defiled accordingly. When it is found to be terefah the sacrifice cannot be proceeded with, as the bird is unfit. R. Judah holds that it is the same, therefore, as hullin, and defiles as such. R. Meir, however, holds that since it was intended for a sacrifice when its neck was wrung, this was its correct method of slaughter, and so it does not defile,');">⁶</span> Said R'Meir: It is a kal wa-homer: if the shechitah of an animal cleanses it, even when terefah, from its uncleanness,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As is shewn in Hul. ');">⁷</span> yet when it is nebelah it defiles through contact or carriage; is it not logical that shechitah cleanses a bird, when terefah, from its uncleanness, seeing that when it is nebelah it does not defile through touch or carriage? Now, as we have found that shechitah which makes it [a bird of hullin] fit for eating,

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