[neverdem]

Nate Howard for The New York Times
Quality Pork Processors, right, adjacent to Hormel, left, employs 1,300 in Austin, Minn.

[pissant]

Spam and Vienna Sausages! Now that is some real food!

[neverdem]

hog brain mystery

[SatinDoll]

Hmmm, I love Hormel’s breakfast sausage. No, I don’t want to know how it is made, thank you.

[modican]

....... or near the “head table,” where workers cut the meat off severed hog heads.......
......a worker would insert a metal hose into the foramen magnum, the opening that the spinal cord passes through. High-pressure blasts of compressed air then turned the brain into a slurry that squirted out through the same hole in the skull, often spraying brain tissue around and splattering the hose operator ........

Ohh please, I will never bitch about illegal immigration again, and please, please, let them take those jobs away from my fellow American.

[DouglasKC]

Interesting article. I was intrigued by this quote:

The aerosolized brain matter might have been inhaled or swallowed, or might have entered through the eyes, the mucous membranes of the nose or mouth, or breaks in the skin.
“It’s something no one would have anticipated or thought about,” said Dr. Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist who is working as a consultant for Hormel and Quality Pork.

But somebody did think about it:

Deu 14:8 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcass.

Also see the following links to see how pork may be related to multiple sclerosis, another neurological disease:

Pork, the suggested cause of Multiple Sclerosis

Bizarre medical theories: Eating Pork Causes Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis, latitude and dietary fat: is pork the missing link?

[3D-JOY]

Darn, I read all the way to the end and unlike a good book it had no happy ending.

I hope there is more news in the future.

[BlueDragon]

sounds like they may need to;

Get rid of the high pressure air hose.
Find another way to flush the brains out, if it's that important to do so. Or find a way to deal with the skull, without messing with the brains at all.

Myself, I can't stand sweetbreads.

[Steely Tom]

The internal details of this story have pinned my gross-out meter on “overload.”

Good night!

[jazusamo]

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

[El Sordo]

That was fascinating.

[JSteff]

“Quality Pork Processors, which backs onto the Hormel property, kills and butchers 19,000 hogs a day “

Mad swine disease?

[Zack Attack]

Bookmarked to read sometime when I’m NOT eating...

LOL

[ricks_place]

[Hot Tabasco]

Some news articles are best left for afternoon reading, not right before breakfast........

[rusureitflies?]

I think eating the brains of humans is also bad for...

[Labyrinthos]

Trichinosis?

[toddlintown]

Bad case of MN liberalism.

[SkyPilot]

His job at Quality Pork was to extract the brains from swine heads. .........As each head reached the end of the table, a worker would insert a metal hose into the foramen magnum, the opening that the spinal cord passes through. High-pressure blasts of compressed air then turned the brain into a slurry that squirted out through the same hole in the skull, often spraying brain tissue around and splattering the hose operator in the process. The brains were pooled, poured into 10-pound containers and shipped to be sold as food — mostly in China and Korea, where cooks stir-fry them, but also in some parts of the American South, where people like them scrambled up with eggs.

[CholeraJoe]

I ate brains and eggs almost every Saturday night the whole time I was in college. It never hurt me none.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump