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Bob wrote:http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pork-bacon-shortage-20120924,0,5901787.story
Bob wrote:http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pork-bacon-shortage-20120924,0,5901787.story
TEOTWAWKI wrote:One of my Grandpas raised hogs... I try not to think about the animal when I eat pork/ham...they are just filthy ...
riceme wrote:TEOTWAWKI wrote:One of my Grandpas raised hogs... I try not to think about the animal when I eat pork/ham...they are just filthy ...
That is actually not true, T. If I didn't need to get ready for this breakfast mtg in town I'd look it up and link you to an article or some such on the subject.
While hogs mire in the mud, I believe they are absolutely the most clean livestock we've got.
Ah, to hell with it. Here's just one article for you, then I have GOT to get going!
http://tamunews.tamu.edu/2007/02/15/hey-porky-pig-you-deserve-some-respect-expert-believes/
Pork:
Bob wrote:http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-pork-bacon-shortage-20120924,0,5901787.story
TEOTWAWKI wrote:
Oh I know they are smarter than dogs and genetically close to humans but I used to have to slop the hogs and watch them fight and fuss to gorge themselves...maybe it was just that when I was bad they threatened to feed me to them...I wonder if I had a brother that was bad before I was born ?....hummmm.
knothead wrote:Pork rules . . .
hallmarkgrad wrote:Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink.
Even light rains can cause lagoons to overflow; major floods have transformed entire counties into pig-shit bayous. To alleviate swelling lagoons, workers sometimes pump the shit out of them and spray the waste on surrounding fields, which results in what the industry daintily refers to as "overapplication." This can turn hundreds of acres -- thousands of football fields -- into shallow mud puddles of pig shit. Tree branches drip with pig shit.
Some pig-farm lagoons have polyethylene liners, which can be punctured by rocks in the ground, allowing shit to seep beneath the liners and spread and ferment. Gases from the fermentation can inflate the liner like a hot-air balloon and rise in an expanding, accelerating bubble, forcing thousands of tons of feces out of the lagoon in all directions.
The lagoons themselves are so viscous and venomous that if someone falls in it is foolish to try to save him. A few years ago, a truck driver in Oklahoma was transferring pig shit to a lagoon when he and his truck went over the side. It took almost three weeks to recover his body. In 1992, when a worker making repairs to a lagoon in Minnesota began to choke to death on the fumes, another worker dived in after him, and they died the same death. In another instance, a worker who was repairing a lagoon in Michigan was overcome by the fumes and fell in. His fifteen-year-old nephew dived in to save him but was overcome, the worker's cousin went in to save the teenager but was overcome, the worker's older brother dived in to save them but was overcome, and then the worker's father dived in. They all died in pig shit.
hallmarkgrad wrote:riceme wrote:hallmarkgrad:
I would argue that the stories you shared make a far better case for HUMANS being filthy than hogs... Humans created those conditions in which hogs were forced to live. And die.
Correct. I am not a animal rights activist. My daughter when to college in Iowa. I was appalled by what I saw. Cattle feed lots are also very bad.
When I worked in Kansas i use to pass a slaughter house on my way to work until I found another route.
hallmarkgrad wrote:Smithfield's holding ponds -- the company calls them lagoons -- cover as much as 120,000 square feet. The area around a single slaughterhouse can contain hundreds of lagoons, some of which run thirty feet deep. The liquid in them is not brown. The interactions between the bacteria and blood and afterbirths and stillborn piglets and urine and excrement and chemicals and drugs turn the lagoons pink.
Even light rains can cause lagoons to overflow; major floods have transformed entire counties into pig-shit bayous. To alleviate swelling lagoons, workers sometimes pump the shit out of them and spray the waste on surrounding fields, which results in what the industry daintily refers to as "overapplication." This can turn hundreds of acres -- thousands of football fields -- into shallow mud puddles of pig shit. Tree branches drip with pig shit.
Some pig-farm lagoons have polyethylene liners, which can be punctured by rocks in the ground, allowing shit to seep beneath the liners and spread and ferment. Gases from the fermentation can inflate the liner like a hot-air balloon and rise in an expanding, accelerating bubble, forcing thousands of tons of feces out of the lagoon in all directions.
The lagoons themselves are so viscous and venomous that if someone falls in it is foolish to try to save him. A few years ago, a truck driver in Oklahoma was transferring pig shit to a lagoon when he and his truck went over the side. It took almost three weeks to recover his body. In 1992, when a worker making repairs to a lagoon in Minnesota began to choke to death on the fumes, another worker dived in after him, and they died the same death. In another instance, a worker who was repairing a lagoon in Michigan was overcome by the fumes and fell in. His fifteen-year-old nephew dived in to save him but was overcome, the worker's cousin went in to save the teenager but was overcome, the worker's older brother dived in to save them but was overcome, and then the worker's father dived in. They all died in pig shit.
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