A new investigation exposes the stomach-churning practice that goes into making your bacon
www.vox.com
The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/2879916

TL;DR for the title:

Employees [from this investigation] can be seen removing the intestines of dead, disease-infected piglets and mixing them with piglet feces in a blender — a mixture to be fed to the adult breeding pigs — causing one worker to gag.

The practice, called “feedback,” is common in the pork business (or “controlled oral exposure” in industry jargon).

The article itself goes into more depth about all the horrific things in the pork industry such as these

The pork industry has pushed pigs to their biological limits, leading to many bizarre practices beyond feedback, many of which are inhumane. To name one example recently in the news: There are horse farms that impregnate horses, extract their blood for a serum, abort their pregnancies, and then sell the serum to pig farms to induce puberty in young female pigs and produce larger litters. Holden Farms, like most pig breeding farms, confine pregnant pigs in gestation crates, cages so small they can’t turn around for practically their entire lives.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yep feeding dead cows to cows is the main way that mad cow disease shows up (there is also sometimes atypical mad cow disease where it shows up randomly too)

      • ArtZuron@beehaw.org
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well, since MCD is caused by prions, which can occur spontaneously in any healthy animal, it makes sense.

  • Frittiert@feddit.de
    2·
    1 year ago

    I will never understand how people can treat other creatures like this.

    And then still eat them.

    • Smoke@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not just evil, it’s dangerous. This is how we get prions, like the one that caused Mad Cow Disease and subsequently tainted an entire generation of British people who can’t be proven not to be carriers, and forced an enormous cull of affected livestock.

  • frog 🐸@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    As a Brit who is old enough to remember the BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy/mad cow disease) epidemic, this is astonishingly reckless and dangerous. This is how you get prion diseases. And you don’t necessarily know you have a build-up of deformed prions until decades later.

  • max@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The meat industry is unethical, water is wet, and the pope is a Catholic. More at 11.