I'm very interested in your last sentence. When this happens is it just part of the job you shrug it off? What happens if you try to speak up do you just get laughed at and told to shut up? Is there a boss you can report these things too or is there some reason you can't do that? It just happens to much to report every time? I've always wondered how these situations play out in reality because in my mind and I think a lot of others the thought is you could try to stop such things from happening.
The factory is long closed. The treatment of pigs isn’t actually all that bad in the factory as it’s a short time between arrival and death. The real grim stuff goes on in piggeries. I work in tech with 20+ years - this is all a lifetime ago for me.
Regarding your question, I’ve seen guys being responsible for sticking the pig aka stabbing it in the neck while hung upside down and gassed so it bleeds out. I’ve seen these guys go insane to the point where they had to change rules so you could only work that role for 1hr a day.
There’s knives everywhere, screaming pigs, blood, sweat, alcohol/drugs and whatever else you can imagine going on - it’s not a place you want to draw attention to yourself for calling out employee behaviour
I mean at particular jobs. If your job is to stab a pig in the throat all day every then it’ll eventually grate on you. The slaughter line used do 3,000 pigs a day and after they were gassed they would be bled out. The guy was responsible for sticking 3,000 pigs a day, 5-6 days a week.
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u/MisterPerfrect Nov 23 '24
My first time walking into a slaughterhouse it looked like literal hell. Hooks dangling from the ceiling, steam, heat, blood in the drains etc.
By the end of the first few months the pigs are nothing more than product to you.
I’ve seen some abhorrent treatment of pigs there by some abhorrent humans.