School Field Trip: Slaughterhouse

I took the 'F' too, on the pig

 

My friends dad used to work at a slaughter house. The man could take 50 showers a day and he would still smell . It was horrible. They ahd to have someone about once a month come in and super clean and de smell the house.(not that it work real well) Just smelled like a flowery slaughter house

 

Yep! I detested it, but it was part of the class. Neither dissection really fazed me because I had done them 2 years prior in my general science class in middle school (I was in a school that went from 3K all the way through high school). My gen. science teacher that year also taught biology, so we had access to the lab and he allowed us to do dissections even though they weren't part of our curriculum.

Ours were in buckets of formaldehyde (sp?). :ack:

The rat I did was NOT easy. It was a royal pain to cut. What was worse was that they had to somehow preserve them for our end of year exam. The dissections were done at least a month or 2 prior. Double :ack:

 

I had to dissect a frog, that was bad enough, couldn't forget that terrible smell. My DD had to dissect a chicken leg and which was terrible because to this day she will not eat a chicken leg.

 

I think if a 16 year old can't understand "slaughter" in slaughterhouse then they probably should have opted out of this field trip and studied the definition of slaughter at school.

 

Yeah, I don't think it's an appropriate "field trip" but not sure what they thought they were going to see at a slaughterhouse. It certainly doesn't just magically appear in tidy little packages in the store. With that said, the very idea of meat while I was pregnant made me :ack:. Took me months to get over it. But I love a good steak, etc. My Grandmother slaughtered pigs, chickens, etc. She didn't raise her own beef for some reason, got too attached to the cows since it was a dairy farm, so she'd have her brother keep a beef cow on his farm for her........................none of us liked the pigs, so it was no hardship to eat them. :mrgreen:

 

I'm sure they have no problem gobblin down cheeseburgers and chicken nuggets, what's the problem seeing the process? You can't keep the blinders on forever.

 

From what I understand, she went because she didn't like to be called scary cat, but she didn't realized how extreme it was to look at. I took Human and Anatomy community college class out of state and we had to dissect freeze dried feral cats. I failed the course because I happened to be a cat lover.

 

I'm curious..how much did most farmers sell their cows to the slaughterhouse? Also, the Smithfield factory next to Bojangles and Just Tire of Clayton - is it a pig slaughterhouse?

 

Cake, not sure of your question. Are you asking how much did most farmers sell their cows to the slaughterhouse for? If that is the case it is based on the cows weight and the current market price for the animal set up by the gov't subsidies.

Not sure on the one next to Just Tires of Clayton, never knew there was one there.

 

You won't find many farmers now a day that are "do-it-yourselfers" They ship them off to slaughterhouses and come back and pick up the meat.

 

Very true, my dad will occasionally do one (maybe 1 every 2 years) by himself otherwise he has the butcher come to the farm. (He has dairy cows so he basically only slaughters one when they need to replenish the freezer with hamburger and he happens to have an animal that is ready to be shipped off to the market anyway)

Man I sound so NON PC...

 

It's a fact of life. Those old dairy cows are just about only good for burger. That's why my Grandmother would get a nice Angus to go on her brother's farm. :mrgreen:

 

You got it!!! :lol:

We had a few Angus's too as a teenager for steaks, those SOB's are a PITA though when they get out of the fence!!!! Couldn't wait for them to be in the freezer!!!:jester:

 

LOL! Yep, those beef cattle a way harder to deal with!! I'd much rather have to chase down a Holstein! Been about 20 years since I had to do that though. I've got one Aunt that is still in the dairy business, not sure how much longer she and her husband can hold out.

 

Shar824,

Shar,does your father live close by, the reason I'm asking is that I'm looking some raw milk

 

Mama and Dad had a cow they named and when they butchered him and got his meat, every time they had steaks, stewbeef, hambugers, etc, they would call it by his name.

Hey koo do you want some of those good Bubba Steaks? Hey come by and get some Bubba Spaghetti.

Talk about having issues.:lol:

 

My ex husbands Grandfather had two cows, one named Hamburger the other, Steak.


yep...

 

Carolina Packers use to sell "cow meat". Don't know if they still do. I remember when I was much younger my Dad would go and buy boxes of Filet Mignon. Best I remember there were about 20-24 half pound steaks to the box. I believe they cost about $1.25 - $1.40 per pound. This was late 60's, early 70's.

Those were the days...

 

Who in the world organized that field trip, someone from PETA? :?

Gross. I would be a vegetarian if I had gone on it, at least for a while anyway. And I'm not even all that squeamish about blood... I just DON'T want to see how my steaks get gotten!!