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[argonsagas]

When this article from People's Magazine about slaughtering dogs as meat came up on today's news it upset me.
It is very difficult for me to accept, but the article and its links shows that our world has multiple, and continuing, "markets" for this. . .


Warning: it is not a friendly read.

https://people.com/rescuers-save-19-dogs-slaughterhouse-before-yulin-dog-meat-festival-7547393

[1978GS750E]

Should this not be in the "whats for dinner" section? Oh wait, this is a motorcycle forum................my bad!

[rphillips]

It's all about the customs of the area. Some cultures wouldn't agree with our slaughtering cows for steaks and burgers... Also wonder how folks here, that aren't accustomed to country way of life, may take what happens in slaughter houses, if they saw what it is really like.

[earlfor]

Common in China and most of Asia.

[dpep]

It's all about the customs of the area. Some cultures wouldn't agree with our slaughtering cows for steaks and burgers... Also wonder how folks here, that aren't accustomed to country way of life, may take what happens in slaughter houses, if they saw what it is really like.

Amen...........

[Rob S.]

I love cows. Cows are delicious!

[argonsagas]

It's all about the customs of the area. Some cultures wouldn't agree with our slaughtering cows for steaks and burgers... Also wonder how folks here, that aren't accustomed to country way of life, may take what happens in slaughter houses, if they saw what it is really like.

There is undeniably truth in that comment.

Long time ago the General manager at a beef production company in Toronto's Stockyard area asked me to work with his company. Pay was very good, advancement opportunities also very good. It all looked and sounded good.

BUT

I never started the job.. Never mind being inside the buildings....just being anywhere in the surrounding area was too much for my olfactory system: ..I could not handle the smell of the place.

[Suzukian]

I only like cows ground into little tubes that I can compact into flat patties.

[ptegsotic]

I only like cows ground into little tubes that I can compact into flat patties.

yea, along with the health to prove it.

[Suzukian]

My brother in law grows his cows. Naturally fed, top notch beef. I prefer Fish though, the Mercury allows me to tell the temperature more accurately.

[trent]

Also wonder how folks here, that aren't accustomed to country way of life, may take what happens in slaughter houses, if they saw what it is really like.

My previous job, we went to a lot of factories, and installed equipment, sometimes a whole new line for process!

One of them was a hog slaughter house, they called it something else, more friendly term i think...like processing plant?

I got the grand tour, from a lifer in management.

He said every month they would hire about 60 people for orientation class, introduction.

He said first day maybe 50 people show up, and the number of people who would show up next day dropped to 40.

Next day dropped to 35, and when they got around to giving tour of the plant they told people they didn't have to go through the kill floor unless that's what they were hired for, most were not.

anyway by the end of the orientation, he said they might have ten people actually show up to start working , and on average after three month only "five "people from that class would still be there.

That place ran two shifts a day, at 5,000-6000 hogs a shift.

I was only there for about 18 days, I seen the trucks rolling and knowing how many hogs i was told they process in a shift

I started to wonder where are all these hogs coming from.

It was messed up, I didn't care to eat pork for a while after that LOL.

I'm glad I wasn't there any longer than I was,
pulling into the parking lot would turn my stomach.

[Suzukian]

Pork, the other white meat. I'd be put off for a while, but I do like pork, and know how to make some exotic Caribbean dishes using pork, delicious.