On 4/21/2013 5:34 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> I worked my way through college working in a meat-packing plant, usually
> stripping the plastic casing from and stacking up hot dogs for packaging as
> they came down a conveyor belt.
Old school! In more contemporary plants, the dogs come out way too fast for
that. They fly through a ring with a tiny
knife edge that slits the casing. Used casing is pulled off to the side as the
dogs fly/fall into an automated packer.
Continuous feed from ginormous mixer, through caser, cooking, uncasing and
packing, untouched by human hands.
You can see the slight cut along the length of the dogs when you open the
package.
> The USDA inspectors were there full-time.
> I once dropped a hot dog, still wrapped in its plastic casing, and picked
> it up to strip the casing. The inspector saw me and shut down the line,
> halting production for the entire plant for two hours. It's a wonder I
> didn't get fired. I still don't eat hot dogs unless I make them myself. I
> know too much about how they are made.
You should see an old fashioned, hand ground, mixed, stuffed and spun/tied
operation.
I eat 'em all anyway. I've not been under illusions about meat for a long time.
Some recent reading has convinced me
that our evolutionary path from tree dwelling apes to hunter gatherers also
revamped our physiology/metabolism from
plant eaters to carnivores using plants primarily for vitamin/mineral
supplements.
Carnivorous (Oxymoron) Moose
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