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home <-- back to According to the HFA, workers are required to kill up to 1100 hogs an hour and end up taking their frustration out on the animals.[38] Eisnitz interviewed a worker -- who had worked in ten slaughterhouses -- about pig production. He told her: "Hogs get stressed out pretty easy. If you prod them too much, they have heart attacks. If you get a hog in the chute that's had the shit prodded out of him and has a heart attack or refuses to move, you take a meat hook and hook it into his bunghole. You try to do this by clipping the hipbone. Then you drag him backwards. You're dragging these hogs alive, and a lot of times the meat hook rips out of the bunghole. I've seen hams, thighs, completely ripped open. I've also seen intestines come out. If the hog collapses near the front of the chute, you shove the meat hook into his cheek and drag him forward."[39] --- "The worst thing .. is the emotional toll. If you work in the stick pit [where hogs are killed] for any period of time -- [the pit] lets you kill things -- but doesn't let you care. You may look a hog in the eye that's walking around in the blood pit with you and think, "God, that really isn't a bad looking animal." You may want to pet it. Pigs down on the kill floor have come up to nuzzle me like a puppy. Two minutes later I had to kill them -- beat them to death with a pipe. [I'm not allowed to] care." - G. A. Eisnitz [48] retrieved 09.27.2025: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse ------ In a 2018 study in the Italian Journal of Food Safety, slaughterhouse workers are instructed to wear ear protectors to protect their hearing from the constant screams of animals being killed.[49] retrieved 09.27.2025: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_slaughter home <-- back to |