New Scientist this week tells of one of the new horrors found in the industrial food processing industry. It affects those workers in slaughterhouses who work on swine heads (in an area known, and you decide if this is dark comedy or not, as "the head table").

In order to remove the brains, which are then canned and exported as a pink pig-food, workers use high pressure jets of compressed air. The process results in "an aerosol of brain matter that workers may inhale." ... read more »

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Posted on 11 February, 2008 - 17:26

School dinners were, in my day, disgusting. It seems little has changed. The Washington Post carries a chilling story of 'downer cattle' being passed as healthy, in an abattoir that provides beef for school dinners. It was captured on video by a member of the American Humane Society, who'd infiltrated the slaughterhouse in Chino, California. Be warned, the video is nasty - I couldn't bear to watch it all.

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Posted on 1 February, 2008 - 01:22