pigs
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Depressing Claymation Video Reveals The Horror Of Turning Pigs To Pork
You know how we all jokingly but sort of seriously say we don’t want to know how the wonderful tubular meat hot dog glue sausage is made? This claymation video of the life of a gestation crate pig completely ruins that, because it reveals how awful pigs are treated before they’re turned into pork. It’s…
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Exploding Hog-Manure Foam Is Costing Farmers Millions
Hog farmers across the country are dealing with a pretty shitty problem. A mysterious faecal foam has begun bubbling up from beneath barn floors, down in the darkness where pig manure falls, burping dangerous quantities of methane and hydrogen sulfide. Sometimes, though, it ignites, blowing up not just the barn but all of the pigs…
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Researchers May Have Found SuperStaph Origins
Doctors always suspected that our heavy reliance on antibiotics is what spurred the rise MRSA, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, the staphylococcus “super germ.” Turns out it may not have been us, but rather our porcine population.
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How Your Bacon Is Made: The Jarvis JR-50 Super Pig Decapitator
Slaughterhouses are dangerous places to work, what with all the tightly packed cutting implements and atomised brain matter you’re inhaling. The Jarvis JR-50 Head Dropper aims to make hog processing safer for everyone but the hogs. The name even sounds peaceable.