Electric Bacon

Warning: viewing the video associated with this post may ruin your day.

Hog slaughter then:

“They had chains which they fastened about the leg of the nearest hog, and the other end of the chain they hooked into one of the rings upon the wheel. So, as the wheel turned, a hog was suddenly jerked off his feet and borne aloft. At the same instant the ear was assailed by a most terrifying shriek… (O)ne by one (the workers) hooked up the hogs, and one by one with a swift stroke they slit their throats. There was a long line of hogs, with squeals and life-blood ebbing away together; until at last each started again, and vanished with a splash into a huge vat of boiling water.” – Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (1)

How are hogs slaughtered today? More humanely, one hopes.

Fat chance (so to speak).

One process begins with stunning the animals, using – are you ready? – electrocution.

Watch if you dare: https://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/business/2014/08/30/14878601/

(Pick this up, if you must, beginning at the two minute mark.)

Source:

(1) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

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