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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 07:08 PM Original message |
Has anyone here on DU ever worked in a slaughterhouse? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 07:16 PM Response to Original message |
1. I went to college in a town with a meat packing plant |
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KansDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 10:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
26. Emporia? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 07:44 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Yep |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 07:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. If you can stomach it, watch Horror at AgriProcessors |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. an awful ethical dilemma ... |
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mandyky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. We butchered chickens every late summer through the fall |
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Viva_La_Revolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 12:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. We used to put them upside down in a bucket. |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. When I was in vet school 25 yrs ago we got a tour of the big |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 08:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Thanks for the input and recommendations |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
7. My ex-wife's cousin is a bacon arranger at an Oscar Mayer plant |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 08:55 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. are the Hollywood set aware of this? |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. imagine...all the biggest stars with bacon wraps on their faces... |
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shanti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 01:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. lol |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 10:20 AM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Shearing sheep works just as well |
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Sacajawea (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
9. This is precisely why I've been a vegetarian since 1964. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. how do you walk along a sidewalk? |
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Sacajawea (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 12:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. I do consciously avoid stepping on ants.... |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:25 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. I admire you. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 12:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. how do you avoid the dilemma of eating plants? |
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Sacajawea (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 01:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Yes indeed, grasswire, they live. But they don't bleed. |
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Sacajawea (797 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 12:26 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. Stellablue....Firstly, I didn't intend to hijack your thread..... |
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DemExpat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 10:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Yes, it is worse - just by the sheer numbers of suffering creatures |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. killing anything isn't pretty |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-13-05 09:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Upton Sinclair |
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DenaliDemocrat (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
16. If I threw a banana in the toilet would you eat it? |
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TX-RAT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 10:30 AM Response to Original message |
23. I've raised cows for 25+ years |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
24. Nope. The worst I ever did was skin a rabbit. |
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StellaBlue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 07:56 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. I had two pet rabbits in the UK |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-16-05 12:41 AM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Pet rabbits are cute. They still eat their babies, though. - n/t |
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jim3775 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
29. My father used to many years ago as a young man |
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kcwayne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-14-05 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
30. I walked into a meat processing plant once to apply for a job |
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