{"id":2502,"date":"2010-07-12T23:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T06:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/07\/a-day-two-pigs-would-die-by-the-order-of-a-local-meat-sciences-professor-named-eric\/"},"modified":"2010-07-17T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:32:56","slug":"a-day-two-pigs-would-die-by-the-order-of-a-local-meat-sciences-professor-named-eric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/12\/a-day-two-pigs-would-die-by-the-order-of-a-local-meat-sciences-professor-named-eric\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Two Pigs Would Die By The Order Of A Local Meat Sciences Professor Named Eric."},"content":{"rendered":"

from CNN’s Eatocracy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

A day two pigs would die: ethical slaughter<\/a><\/p>\n

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There’s no pretty way to say this. I was present for the death of the pig pictured above.<\/p>\n

It was a grim, sodden day on an upstate New York farm. A local\u00a0meat sciences professor<\/a>\u00a0named Eric explained to the pig’s owners that the most humane method of slaughter was to shoot it at close range between the eyes with a .22 rifle – a stunning blow to knock its central nervous system offline – then slit the main artery so the blood loss would bring about swift, arguably less painful death. The blow would also supposedly reduce the stress on the animal, allowing for better meat quality.<\/p>\n

The farmers, having researched the matter thoroughly and\u00a0consulted with the Humane Animal Farm Care project<\/a>, believed this to be true. Still, as they stood several yards from the slaughter, half sheltered in the doorway to their goat barn, they flinched at the stark crack of the rifle, and then they cried.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Eatocracy<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from CNN’s Eatocracy A day two pigs would die: ethical slaughter There’s no pretty way to say this. I was present for the death of the pig pictured above. It was a grim, sodden day on an upstate New York farm. A local\u00a0meat sciences professor\u00a0named Eric explained to the pig’s owners that the most humane […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}