Is this true??

Question

I have heard rumors about how pigs are slaughtered in some parts of Asia. While the pig is still alive, they insert a red-hot steel rod up its rectum and slowly through the intestines all the way to the heart while it dies very slowly. I mean I know humans can be very cruel but I still have a hard time believing this. Can anyone verify it?

Answer 1

Yes this is true in many parts of the world. However, modern slaughterhouses seem to tilt towards more humane (???) ways of slaughtering the pigs.

Answer 2

Not true!
That would ruin perfectly edible parts like the heart, intestines (chitlins, sausage casings...) and organ meats. Also the 'bung' [rectum] muscle is edible, though I'm not a fan of it. The only creature I've seen violently executed in order to increase 'the spiritual essence' of the meat has been dogs (the big eating kind-not the pet kind). I've been to many slaughterhouses in the US Midwest-although a bloody horrorshow, nothing that would cause me to switch completely to vegan lifestyle. The dozens of cattle I've seen killed were reasonably killed without undue pain/suffering.

Answer 3

I don't know. But at least I can tell you, that this is not the practice in Vietnam.
I live here for 2 years now, I saw really ugly things regarding food etc., but killing a pig like that? No.

Answer 4

Although the pig is technically still alive, I believe it's already been "stunned" (brain dead) due to the steel rod that gets shot through its skull. I think the rod you're referring to is used for evisceration. Blar.

Answer 5

I don't currently find any info, yet, to back that statement but I wouldn't deny it either. It doesn't matter where you go and in which country you go to, you will find people who are inhumane in the way that they slaughter and kill animals. I don't think you can just limit it to Asia.

Answer 6

Is it true? I can't find any proof - but that doesn't prove you wrong! Where did you hear these rumours?

Anyway, now we're on the subject of immoral slaughtering practices, how about this?
"conscious ritually slaughtered cattle are hoisted up by one leg for 2-5 mins. or longer, and the sheer weight of 1-2,000 lbs. causes their flesh to tear violently away from the bone, and it often breaks the canon bone. The animal twists around, and so its nostrils are held with a clamp to still the animal while its throat is slitted with a knife. Over 90% of cattle slaughtered in New Jersey are ritually killed (N.J. supplies meat for itself and New York state), as only part (the forequarters) of the cattle is used for kosher meat, from which the blood vessels are easily removed in accordance with Jewish law. The rest of the meat (most of it) is sold generically. Although 5% of flesh bought in the U.S. is kosher, as many as 50% of the animals are slaughtered as such. 28 states in the U.S. are under no compulsion to use humane slaughtering methods. After all, captive bolt guns cost one cent per animal (1989), and electric stunning equipment is expensive to install. The pole-ax is still used, which must land on a precise spot on a moving cow's head for success; frightened cows move their heads. Skilled men will sometimes miss and crash through an eye or nose, causing much agony before a difficult death. Unskilled poleaxers get practice on live animals. These workers are under great pressure and are in a hurry."
The same page mentions animals being killed by a metal rod up the rectum, but they only mention it in reference to FUR bearing animals.
http://sztybel.tripod.com/facts.html

This page also mentions the steel rod method in connection with fur bearing animals;
http://www.liveexportshame.com/publications/alv/WritersGroup_Newsletter_14.pdf
But it's only in a letter from someone, on page 13, so I don't know how much of it is based on fact.

How about this?
"There is a guy that dumps the cages,
that has a steel rod 1/4" in diameter
and 8' long that he uses to jam into
the side of the chicken to knock it loose,
but it ususally just goes through the
side of the chicken. When it does, he
just keeps doing it until he rips the bird
apart or rips its feet loose from its body."
http://cyberactivist.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_cyberactivist_archive.html
That's from America.

Answer 7

Never mind pigs ,that's how Edward 3rd was murdered

Answer 8

OMG! Hearing this has made me glad that I am a vegetarian.

Answer 9

hey hon
can yo u pls be more specified to the least.

Answer 10

wouldnt it just be a hell of alot easier to shoot it?