http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/338/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/276 <p align="center"><img src="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/files/pighead.jpg" alt="pig's head" /></p> <p><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19726423.900">New Scientist</a> 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"). </p> <p>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." <span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/276"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/276#comment Ch. 6. Pesticides, Genetic Engineering, Public Science, Cuba bird flu Ch. 10. Food Sovereignty mad cow disease Minnesota progressive inflammatory neuropathy Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:26:47 -0700 Raj 276 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal