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Don't eat the pork
December 8, 2006I just finished reading, alright, almost finished reading one of the most insightful and probably the most graphic stories that I've ever read.
In the newest Rolling Stone magazine — the one with Snoop Dogg on the cover — writer Jeff Tietz addresses the problems and waste of the Smithfield Foods company.
And to quote Tietz, blame it on hog crap.
Smithfield Foods is in the pork processing business. And it looks to be the most profitable pork processing business in the history of pork processing businesses.
Last year the business killed 27 million hogs. And a slaughtered hog weighs about 250 lbs. This quote is long but important so bare with me.
"The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs each year is roughly equivalent to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson."
(I now have a keyboard typing cramp). What an astonishing quote. Think of all the dead bodies....but in the world of pork processing, think about the actual crap that goes along with it.
In on Smithfield hog farm, in Utah, the 500,000 pigs there produce more crap each year than the 1.5 million Manhattan residents. So the total weight for all of Smithfield’s farms is about 26 million tons a year. That's a lot of crap.
And for the people living around, working around or those who are somehow involved with that area — are slowly dying — but on a faster scale from all of the fecal matter’s chemicals produced.
There is just too much information to digest, and I'll base this off the number of responses. However many people post to this asking for more, that's what I'll do. If you want to learn about Pig crap, post. Or you could just pony up $4 and buy a new Rolling Stone magazine, the one with Snoop Dogg on the cover.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 12:56 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Comments
never can get enough about pig crap.....we want more!
My grandfather was a meat inspector for the state of Il. I know fist hand just how hogs are slaugtered and packaged. You see I used to go to work with him and at the end of the day I was able to pick out what I wanted for dinner of the finished product. I had never once, until now, thought of the waste involed so I would like to here more with less than $4!
