Chile Forum

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I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.

btw - dear MikieO...
you have been warned...
do NOT continue with your plans to come to shiiile!

500,000 pigs in Chile to be slaughtered

SANTIAGO — Nearly half a million hogs and sows at the largest pig farm in Chile are to be slaughtered after the government closed the meat processing plant there due to health concerns.

"They are going to be slaughtered. They are not going to another farm, nor to another plant," Jose Guzman, chief executive of Agrosuper, which owns the premises, told local media.

Residents of Freirina, a town in the parched Atacama region, cut off roads leading to the vast pig farm a week ago to protest against the foul smells emanating from the slaughterhouse.

Hundreds of workers fled after the protests turned violent, resulting in arrests and two police cars being torched.

Pigs started dying after going without food and water for five days.

The Chilean government waded into the row on Tuesday, declaring a health emergency, ordering the indefinite closure of the plant and giving Agrosuper six months to evacuate the animals.

Guzman said the pigs must be slaughtered because it would require 50,000 trucks to move them and, besides, no one was willing to take them.

Agrosuper obtained certification to build the Freirina abattoir in 2006 and had put in place a system of micro-organisms to eliminate the waste.

The company has blamed the stench on airing problems and the failure of the micro-organisms to generate.

If pigs could vote,
the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time,
no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
--- Orson Scott Card

i like pork too....

going to be a flooded market of pork soon (if they are up to standard), mmmm tasty pork

(your right tho, great pets... shame they get eaten after you raise them )

What did the pig say when the farmer grabbed its tail? That's the end of me.

Is this an example of factory farming at its worst?

zer0 never commented on the manteca scandal. That was gross!! (I believe he was on vacation when that story broke)

Buy your meat from smaller butchers and ask where the meat comes from. And render your own manteca...

From zer0's previous posts, it seems supermarket meat vacuum sealed in heavy plastic direct from the processors is also OK.

and "SuperCerdo" Mortadella is on sale here at the local supermarket in the IX region for 300 pesos a 1/4 kilo _, big sign posted on the glass.



practicamente la están regalando !!!

In a couple kitchens where I've worked here in Chile, we would get our chicken breast from Agro Super (a.k.a. Super Pollo). It didn't take long before I had to stop eating chicken all together, after having observed the shape that these chickens were in. I guess you could say they were in good shape, as far as fitness goes, as the breasts were so large and pumped up coming off the breast bone they actually had cleavage. But then there was the purple color and the rough sandpaper texture on the surface of the meat, and when I saw that on a few different birds I knew something wasn't right. Sometimes I would slice into the breast and my knife would pass right through as if the flesh was empty inside, and sure enough it was, more or less. A loose, fibrous kind of material that tore apart like pastry. I had the good gumption to throw these parts away, but decided to personally refrain from threatening my organism with "SuperPollo", "SuperSalmon" or any other so called "Super" product.

Around the restaurant, Parking was limited in the busy, flaming hot months of summer. So the Agro Super delivery guys would park the refrigerated truck in one spot relatively close to all the restaurants where product had to be delivered, load up the dolly and then wheel their temperature-sensitive (fish, chicken, etc.) food around in the sun til all the deliveries were made. They would get to us, and throw the soaking wet boxes of salmon, chicken, sliced turkey up on the prep counter, bringing with them a puddle of defrosted ice and food juice, and there would be no telling how long they had been out of refrigeration.

Boycott Agro Super !!!

moravagine wrote:and "SuperCerdo" Mortadella is on sale here at the local supermarket in the IX region for 300 pesos a 1/4 kilo _, big sign posted on the glass.



practicamente la están regalando !!!

In a couple kitchens where I've worked here in Chile, we would get our chicken breast from Agro Super (a.k.a. Super Pollo). It didn't take long before I had to stop eating chicken all together, after having observed the shape that these chickens were in. I guess you could say they were in good shape, as far as fitness goes, as the breasts were so large and pumped up coming off the breast bone they actually had cleavage. But then there was the purple color and the rough sandpaper texture on the surface of the meat, and when I saw that on a few different birds I knew something wasn't right. Sometimes I would slice into the breast and my knife would pass right through as if the flesh was empty inside, and sure enough it was, more or less. A loose, fibrous kind of material that tore apart like pastry. I had the good gumption to throw these parts away, but decided to personally refrain from threatening my organism with "SuperPollo", "SuperSalmon" or any other so called "Super" product.

Around the restaurant, Parking was limited in the busy, flaming hot months of summer. So the Agro Super delivery guys would park the refrigerated truck in one spot relatively close to all the restaurants where product had to be delivered, load up the dolly and then wheel their temperature-sensitive (fish, chicken, etc.) food around in the sun til all the deliveries were made. They would get to us, and throw the soaking wet boxes of salmon, chicken, sliced turkey up on the prep counter, bringing with them a puddle of defrosted ice and food juice, and there would be no telling how long they had been out of refrigeration.

Boycott Agro Super !!!

Jeez, I had my reasons for never buying Aritzia any more, now Super Pollo. That leaves Don Pollo or become a vegetarian.

Db, why Aritzia?

Great. So thanks to this thread with certain KEY WORDS like "pork", the forum will be monitored.

Revealed: Hundreds of Words To Avoid Using Online If You Don't Want the Government Spying on You (and They Include 'Pork', 'Cloud' and 'Mexico')
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1w19pGNRa

California South wrote:Db, why Aritzia?

Nothing to do with chicken! One of their trucks bumped my car and the driver flat out denied it and they backed the driver. They offered me a tray of 6 chicken thighs as compensation. I got inventive telling them where they could put their chicken bits.

Ummm, these pigs are living where? An abbatoir... And they're going to be slaughtered. Somehow their fate doesn't seem much of a surprise... Perhaps the timing, but then, perhaps not?

Zer0nz, any thoughts on how many pigs might be "processed" annually at the largest pig farm in Chile? Might well turn out that they would process this many in the next 6 months anyways.

BTW, take the vego option. Plenty of information out there as to the crap that gets pumped into intensively farmed animals to bring you those chickens with DD cleavage and the like. You eat this stuff at your own risk! If you are going to eat meat, find a supplier that provides it from animals that lived like real animals!

They offered me a tray of 6 chicken thighs as compensation

I laughed out loud.
Welcome to Chile... here, have a chicken thigh.

I thought this thread was about Greece and the rest of the PIGS. They have been ordered slaughtered also.