The industry answer to unsafe employee behavior is NOT to educate, train, supervise & pay the employees enough to inspire safety (by, say, putting an attendant and wash station between the "dirty world" and the processing area to verify that everyone washes their hands), but to introduce more...
The more I learn about the modern food system here in the USA, the more questions I have about it.
I'd like to think the government is there to "help" industry make safer products for the public so the public can focus on other things. But I think we jumped the shark on that a while ago...
Different people and different religions and different cultures and different traditions have very different opinions about poultry processing. And the person doing it has to do what works for them.
Science suggests a killing cone helps calm the bird from being upside down and being gently...
You want the heart to help bleed the bird out by continuing to pump. Slitting through the veins with a super sharp knife is smooth and efficient. Cutting the head clear off could stop the heart.
I don't. Though I've heard that plenty of times.
I can't bring myself to kill an animal. I have issues with fainting and would be an emotional wreck and so far haven't been too pressed on the issue.
I'm very good about plucking and dressing and parting a chicken or turkey. And I can feed and...