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SlaughterEvery year in the U.S., 100 million pigs are killed for food. At the slaughterhouse, slaughter lines move so quickly that the animals are often badly stunned or not stunned at all, so the pigs are still alive and struggling to escape when they are hung upside-down by their back legs and while they have their throats cut. Other times, workers says that they sometimes crack the pigs' skulls open with lead pipes before they are hung up to have their throats cut. One worker describes what pigs may face on the killing floor: "[I]t is in the stick pit, you are going to kill it. Only you don't just kill it, you go in hard, push hard, blow the windpipe, make it drown in its own blood. Split its nose. A live hog would be running around the pit. It would just be looking up at me and I'd be sticking, and I would just take my knife and—eerk—cut its eye out while it was just sitting there ... One time I took my knife—it's sharp enough—and I sliced off the end of a hog's nose, just like a piece of bologna ... I took a handful of salt brine and ground it into his nose ... I stuck the salt right up the hog's ass ... It's not anything anyone should be proud of ... It was my way of taking out frustration." |
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