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In Reply to: RE: Meat cutters posted by bullethead on October 16, 2016 at 11:03:15
When I was ten, both my parents got laid off in Cleveland Ohio, so we moved to the country where we could raise our own food and animals. We killed the cow, pig, chicken and cut it up ourselves.
Of course I was too young to do much. I did chomp chickens heads off while my mom held them, and built fires under a huge cast iron pot in the yard to boil water that we used to dip the chickens in to make plucking feathers easier. We used the same boiling pot to de hair a pig. My job was to pour boiling water over an area and scrape the hair off. We made sausage and hamburger in the kitchen with a hand grinder clamped to the kitchen table. You put chunks in and pushed it down with a wooden plunger while you hand cranked. The ground meat went into a bucket on a chair.
Trust me, those weren't the good old days, but I know where meat comes from and it's not the supermarket.
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Yeah a steak to most people is its own entity, a red slice wrapped in plastic,
And that's it right? ;)
If some people had to kill something themselves, gut it and process it, they might become vegetarians.
I felt most sorry for the chickens. With calves and hogs, we fed them and shot them between the eyes with a single shot. They dropped instantly and never felt a thing ( as far as I could tell). They never saw it coming, and died instantly enjoying a nice snack.
Chickens on the other hand had to be chased around and caught. Then we stretched out their necks on a stump and beheaded them. They were clearly stressed, but we did try to make it as quick as possible.
None of this stuff originates on a plastic tray covered in plastic wrap. Try not to think about how it gets there.
My mom worked at Swift meat packing plant back in the day. She told me stories of how they killed the cows. They came in through a shoot single file. These guys stood on a platform over them and hit them in the head with a hammer as they passed. Someone else tied their legs and a hydraulic lift pulled them up vertically. Usually, they dropped instantly, but sometimes they ducked were injured and things had to become violent. Hey, it's a job. I'm sure those guys were numb to it. None of it is pretty. They have more humane tools today that drives a spike into their skulls similar to a nail gun. I'm sure they never miss.
You can still go to Spain and eat a steak from a bull that was tortured for 15 minutes for the amusement of the masses and stabbed with a sword. I have a problem with that. I personally would cheer for the bull.
And not just cows and chickens :)
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