Industrial processing

[lfoose]

Does anyone know how the 'big guys' at the processing plants kill the chickens?

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

hang them upside down and have a automatic throat cutter is what im guessing.

 

[UncleHoot]

Hang upside down, electric shock to keep them immobile, slit their throats, then dunk them in the hot water bath.

At least that's how Pamela Anderson explains it.

 

[lfoose]

Pamela Anderson? Since when did she do any work?

 

[greyfields]

I've seen videos, but I don't know how current they are. In the clip I saw, they are suspended from their legs on a conveyor belt type thing. A mechanical device removes the head entirely and they bleed out as the converyor moves along. They were automatically scalded, then a worker placed them in pluckers. At least that's the best I can remember.

 

[UncleHoot]

Quote:
It was really meant as a joke reference. She narrates a graphic video explaining the "cruelty" of the broiler industry. I won't link to it here, but you can Google: Pamela Anderson "Kentucky Fried Cruelty". It's obviously not in favor of factory farming, but most of it, I found laughable. "They grow up without mothers." Oh, the horror! ;-) Other parts provided me with more incentive to raise my own.

 

[lfoose]

Well I watched it...

I can appreciate what she is trying to do but the opinion of movie stars never impressed me much.

My DH teases that our chickens are treated better than he is. I have run across people that are leary of my eggs and feel that the store ones are 'safer' or 'healthier'. But once I go into explaining how the chickens for the store bought eggs are kept and raised and then show them my chickens, they change their minds pretty quickly.

 

[KLH2010]

We just watched a video on this in class. They hang them upside down, stun them electrically, then a blade cuts their throats. It's basically the same procedure that's used on other species.