The Kill Floor Slaughterhouse
Our company slaughters 500 pigs a day.
The kill floor slaughterhouse. It s not chilled so when i walked in my glasses immediately fogged up and i was glad for that because it gave me a chance to adjust and be deliberate about what i wanted to look at. Palmetto creek does not sell suckling pigs or roasters under 100 pounds. This is by far one of the most profound and disturbing experiences i ve ever had. In between are hundreds of workers mainly using handheld knives processing the meat.
This is how chicken slaughter looks inside a modern chicken slaughterhouse. We don t feel comfortable killing something that young woods said. This video shows the huge gap between the image of a clean and fast kill that the general public has over cow slaughter and what cow slaughter is actually like. In this vlog i am going to tour you to my company the slaughter house.
It is also likely the cow and the bullock would be slaughtered in view of each other a common feature of the killing floor and somewhat disturbing given research findings from de waal and. I worked as an entry level worker on the kill floor of an industrialized slaughterhouse in order to understand from the perspective of those who participate directly in them how these zones of. Only here did we see workers smocks covered in blood rather than raw meat. 1 one is not allowed to take pictures of the usda inspector a usda rule and 2 she was not allowed to take pictures of the act of stunning the animal or sticking it with the knife a slaughterhouse rule promulgated not out of a feeling that they have anything to hide but out of a justified paranoia i believe of potentially being portrayed in.
Extreme screaming of pigs dead pigs. Hogs on the farm reach slaughter weight 225 250 pounds at eight to ten months. The desire to be profitable and compete with other companies is leading more and more meat corporations all around the world to implement intensive methods for. There were only two rules on the kill floor.
From there we went to the kill floor. This is an extremely profitable way to kill and process countless of chickens in a short period of time. Although filmed in mexico modern slaughterhouses work similarly in all countries.