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Subject: Re: How do you kill three chickens a second without jamming?
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Date: Mon, 11-May-87 16:09:01 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 16:09:01 1987
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In article <2642@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, andre@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Andre Burgoyne) writes:
> 
> Anyway, there was an article in the Los Angeles Times last summer about
> the poultry industry.  It described some of the machinery that is used
> to deal with the live ( but doomed ) chickens.
> 
> Does anyone out there know how this is actually done?  How does this
> machine work?  Why is this technology used on chickens but not
> beef or pork?
> -- 

Grab the tape 'Faces of Death III'.  It shows quite excplicitly how the chickens
are processed.  They are hung by hooks, while alive, which penetrate the area 
between the two bones in the leg.  I believe a person then slits the throat
and disembowels the bird.  All the rest of the cleaning is done by machine.
I am not sure about the cutting.  It did show the chickens heads being torn off
by the machine.  There was a V shaped knife that would grab the head while
the rest of the bird continued down the assembly/disassembly line.  The net
effect was that head was torn off.  They are then defeathered and cleaned.
That is about all I recall.

Warning, Face of Death 1, 2 and 3 are all very graphic and should not
be shown to children or anybody with a weak stomach.


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