You ever watch you tube videos of hog processing. The automation today is amazing with the machines that cut up hogs. Manual labor has been cut to a minimum since I worked in a hog processing plant in the late 60s.
The workers are right on the assembly line work being repetitive. You better keep a sharp knife that is for sure.

A note of caution is advised to any one who has not seen an animal processed before it reaches your local food market not to watch the videos of meat processing. Something that is not viewable for everyone.

My oldest brother delivered Luter's processed products,( sandwich meats) throughout lower North & South Carolina in the early sixties.

Brings back old memories. When I was a kid my dad raised mink, for the fur. There was a small slaughterhouse a few miles away that raised their own beef and processed and sold it. We would go there to pick up tripe which if memory serves is the stomach lining. I would watch them bring a cow into a tight stall and shoot it in the forehead with a .22 rifle. drag it out with a power winch by the hind legs til it was hanging upside down and cut its throat to bleed it out, and then skin it, cut it up into roasts, steaks, etc. They even let me shoot a cow one time when I was around 10 or so.

THanks JAP. I've seen some of those videos. My wish is for more humane treatment of animals destined for our dinner plates.

My actual reason for posting the link was who owns Smithfield now.

THanks CARBOB. That is one brand name I do not remember.

Thanks Rcbbuckeye. Silly some think meat is 'made' in the grocery store.

Owned by China, well that adds a twist.

Thanks Sully. Yes it does. Wonder if we could nationalize it like China does for US companies located there?