UK: First process your chicken … - (The Guardian)
July 2, 2008 – 5:09 pmA chicken factory is never a pretty thing, but if you eat meat, honesty requires that you face the slaughterhouse. On my first visit to a large-scale abattoir, I was surprised to find it was not the blood that bothered me so much as the scald tank. Modern poultry processing is a production-line business - the chickens are hung upside down on a moving conveyor belt of shackles, which takes them first past the breast-rubber to calm them down, then moves them on for stunning and killing. Next, the conveyor dunks them in a huge tank of scalding water. This loosens the feathers before the chickens pass on into the plucking machines, where whirring rubber fingers strip them down to the skin, beginning a sort of disassembly process, which moves them through an evisceration machine and into the final cutting room.
The Henry Ford of the chicken production line was an […]
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