Tuesday, May 22, 2007

How does a cow become a steak?

When I was younger I often found myself inside a slaughterhouse, because I lived near one, and some of my relatives and friends work there. Looking back, the slaughterhouse seems to me more like a factory than a place where our food come from.

Firstly, a cow is led into a tightly-fitting three-sided metal box. Then the door, the fourth side, is closed, with the cow penned in. From the top, a man presses the mouth of a gun onto the neck of the cow. A four-inch long pin is fired into the neck to sever the vertebrate, killing the cow instantly.

The long side of the box opens, spilling the limp cow onto the floor. A chain hanging from a conveyor overhead is wrapped around the ankle of one of the hind legs. A wrench retracts the chain, pulling the cow up into the air by its hind leg.

The conveyor carries the cow hanging up-side-down over a basin. A butcher with a sharp knife cuts its throat. Blood spills out, collected by a bucket below.

The conveyor then transfers the cow to another area, where butchers skin the cow, slit open its belly, and remove the intestines. I was always amazed at how much there were.

Then the head and the feet are cut off, and the rest of the cow is dismembered. Part of it becomes a steak. My favourite, however, is the tail. What is yours?

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tabbycat said...

Ewwww. Do the cows know where they're going to?

It does sound somewhat more humane than some kosher slaughterhouses, though. Apparently the way it's done there -- because Jewish law prescribes that animals be killed by cutting the throat -- is to confine the cow in a pen and then to force its head back so that the throat is exposed. Then they flip the animal upside down, and a rabbi cuts its throat. Then the cow is flipped right-side-back, and a chain is attached to one of its ankles and it is lifted up into the air to go to the next step in the conveyor chain.

StephenC said...

First of all, the cows in the picture were free-ranging ones that I encountered on a hiking trip in Sai Kung. I don't think they woull be killed any time soon. Nobody owned them.

As to those just about to be slaughtered? No ideas. Once in a while someone claims to find a cow shedding tears. I have no ideas as to the truthfulness and reason.

Death does seem to be instantaneous in the mordern slaughterhouse. At least the lost of consciousness.

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