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The ADs seek joy and aubergines

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BogRollBOGOF · 20/06/2020 11:28

We got a bit cut off there didn't we? Thread 15 now.

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DominaShantotto · 20/06/2020 11:58

Checking in again - took a bit to find you in the thread list (I don't tend to brave the rest of the site at the moment as it's out of control)

SpnBaby1967 · 20/06/2020 12:00

I think I love the fact that we mean actual aubergine but it comes across like we're all looking for an opportunity for some "aubergine fun" Grin Wink

But of course we know @Hestershaw1 found her aubergine recently

Orangeblossom78 · 20/06/2020 12:00

Goodness

Protesters have doused the French health ministry in red paint to symbolise the blood of people who have died with Covid-19.

Footage shows activists from the Attac protest movement - a well-known anti-globalisation group - spraying the facade of the ministry’s offices in Paris.

A giant medal-shaped banner, dubbed the "medal of contempt", was placed on the steps outside the building during the stunt.

The activists cited the scale of Covid-19 deaths and the treatment of health workers by the French government as the reasons for their protest.

Weedsnseeds1 · 20/06/2020 12:01

Aha, here you are!
Bakewell
Bovine/ovine slaughter
Easy to spread out. Bigger animals in pens for lairage (pre-slaughter holding area) so maybe 2 or three people there, including a vet, to check animals on unloading, move to pens, but can keep apart.
One person to move animals up the race, one in stun box. One for shacking, one sticking. So again, distance separated, then the animal is on a rail and you have one person performing each step, so legging, hide pulling, evisceration etc. For lamb, they are usually standing, for beef they are in little caged platforms that move up and down, so automatically separated.
Carcasses move into chillers on automated rails.
The move on rails to cutting area, with one butcher making each cut. At the packing end it can be a bit more crowded as you have people either side of a conveyor lifting "their" cut off and packing in bulk boxes.
Retail packs are normally done at a different facility.
Storage and despatch is fork lifts, so again, easy to separate. Less people at these facilities, easier to stagger breaks. Usually change clothes each break, particularly at the killing end as it can be messy.
Chicken arrive in large crates (modules).
Unload by FLT, then two people needed to lift each mod into lairage. Birds don't come out of mods.
Two people required to lift mod to shackles. Multiple people required to stand close together and shackle birds. Small animal, high throughput, fast lines.
The Anglesey plant does KFC so will be Halal. Automated line through stun bath, then maybe 4-6 people to do throat cut due to speed and halal can't be rotating knives, has to be by hand. All close together.
Plucking and evisceration is automated. One or two people to remove livers, hearts, gizzard from pluck. Close together.
Various people packing whole birds. The line grades automatically be weight so people standing close together to grab the corrects birds for their box.
Cutting area has a conveyor with people each side either cutting or packing. Small animal so belt not very wide. Far more people and close together.
Chicken plants are cramped with a lot of rails close together. Require more people. Difficult to stagger breaks as you don't have enough cover on the line if you send small groups.
This is why the chicken industry is higher risk

BogRollBOGOF · 20/06/2020 12:01

@DominaShantotto

Checking in again - took a bit to find you in the thread list (I don't tend to brave the rest of the site at the moment as it's out of control)
It was a panic move; we were chatting away and the thread closed so I pulled up the most recent suggestions of thread name choices during an awkward silence Grin
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Bollss · 20/06/2020 12:04

Found you again! Felt a bit lost for a while their!

Not sure I'll ever be able to eat a chicken again now though Wink

I mean i know all that stuff has to be done but.... Ignorance is bliss isn't it Grin

Weedsnseeds1 · 20/06/2020 12:04

The bacon factory in Yorkshire, not sure what's going on there as they are usually fairly automated and spread out. But maybe more of a precaution if they have a positive case, so being responsible, rather than an outbreak as such

OhFuckOffWithTheBubbleBollocks · 20/06/2020 12:05

I once bought some bath bombs as a treat for my DC from Lush. They are both veggie/vegan so I assumed the new "culinary" bath bombs were aimed at this market (as it's Lush!) and bought them an aubergine and a peach each.

They absolutely pissed themselves when they opened them - apparently they were connected to Valentines Day and meant to be a cock and an arse respectively.

I had no idea. Blush It was the first time I actually felt middle aged and it went downhill from there Grin

Spudlet · 20/06/2020 12:05

Phew, found you!

Just back from a run, no need for an emergency bush wee but I do have a cracking bruise / scratch down one leg from a very norty cocker spaniel! However, as the owner of a fellow norty cocker spaniel I grinned and bore it in solidarity 🐶

Interesting info @Weedsnseeds1, I did some work on equine welfare at slaughter some years ago but didn’t really touch on other species much.

ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson · 20/06/2020 12:07

Found you! I sent my boss an aubergine emoji once Blush. I thought I was sending him a drink and a selection of random snacks (all the glasses and food emoticons in my phone menu). He never said anything, I hope because he didn’t realise either, but he may just have been being tactful.

Bollss · 20/06/2020 12:07

@OhFuckOffWithTheBubbleBollocks

I once bought some bath bombs as a treat for my DC from Lush. They are both veggie/vegan so I assumed the new "culinary" bath bombs were aimed at this market (as it's Lush!) and bought them an aubergine and a peach each.

They absolutely pissed themselves when they opened them - apparently they were connected to Valentines Day and meant to be a cock and an arse respectively.

I had no idea. Blush It was the first time I actually felt middle aged and it went downhill from there Grin

Ha! That made me giggle Wink
Weedsnseeds1 · 20/06/2020 12:07

GeneGenie beef and lamb is quite calm and quiet. Poultry is not so much.
I also don't really like the pork process as it is normally gassing in the UK. Electric or captive bolt stun is more humane in my opinion.

Bollss · 20/06/2020 12:09

@Weedsnseeds1

GeneGenie beef and lamb is quite calm and quiet. Poultry is not so much. I also don't really like the pork process as it is normally gassing in the UK. Electric or captive bolt stun is more humane in my opinion.
Blimey I might end up vegetarian by the end of this thread. I mean I always buy British meat and free range eggs and what not but reading about it rather brings it home that its actual animals. I know how thick that sounds!
sueelleker · 20/06/2020 12:11

@TheGreatWave Surely new frame+new roof=new conservatory?

pollyhemlock · 20/06/2020 12:14

Found you 😀

Weedsnseeds1 · 20/06/2020 12:15

Will we have a chicken shortage, I think was the second part of Bakewell's question. No we won't it's a massive industry, but it's not so easy to divert birds if a plant is shut. You have new flocks following behind the ones due for slaughter, so they can't be kept on in the housing. Most plants are 24/7 so although some may be able to increase throughput to deal with extra birds, most won't.
Probably the easiest thing would be to destroy a flock at chick stage and hold mature flocks back. But there may not be a market for bigger birds and profit would be wiped out by extra feed and electric.

HeadSpin5 · 20/06/2020 12:19

new thread phew! 😊

ISaySteadyOn · 20/06/2020 12:22

Also checking in.

HesterShaw1 · 20/06/2020 12:24

My diet usually doesn't contain much meat. Since locknown started, it's contained more...I don't know why.

I think I'll got back to "less" after reading that. Or maybe I'll keep chickens and dispatch them myself. A cow and lambs, less practical.

countrygirl99 · 20/06/2020 12:26

This thread is so educational.

Orangeblossom78 · 20/06/2020 12:27

We eat quite a bit of quorn but they don't seem to have the sausages or burgers since this recent time, not sure why. Can still get the mince and ham though

MagdaS · 20/06/2020 12:27

Checking in, knew it was us with the aubergine reference. 🍆

Another weekend of nothingness beckons but at least my house is clean after a concerted effort this morning. I made the boys tidy their room and put their bedclothes in the wash. Fucking hell, you would have thought I’d asked them to go down the pit for the rest of their lives. I am determined not to raise manchildren though.

Orangeblossom78 · 20/06/2020 12:28

Mushrooms make a good curry, They taste quite meaty in it.

Orangeblossom78 · 20/06/2020 12:28

I know Magda I am still waiting for mine to bring me sheets off the bunk bed. I'm not climbing up there.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 20/06/2020 12:34

My mum took work in a chicken line back in the 70s to feed the family. 6 turned up Monday morning - by lunchtime there were only 2 left.

My ex was a butcher so used to the gore. He took an extra shift at the small, rural abattoir (very high standards) because it was good money. Never again.

I strongly believe in this country our farmers generally care very much about the welfare of their livestock - and “angst” at farming ought be directed to abattoirs instead.