Meat man Pynchon

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri Jun 23 08:28:21 CDT 2006


On Jun 23, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:

>
> I remember a public television history of Chicago that showed some  
> diagrams of the mass-production slaughterhouses for pigs that were  
> jaw-dropping in their carnage-per-minute.  Highly engineered  
> machinery for mass butchery.  Now just imagine that those were  
> people instead of pigs...
>
> Ghetta


Back in the 60s i was  allowed entry into the Cudahy beef processing  
facility in Omaha, Nebraska. i guess they allowed me in because I  
wasn't researching animal cruelty but rather the  effect of  
automation on human unemployment.


>
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