Before being killed, hogs were knocked out by a jolt of electricity to the head and brain.
"In Kentucky, it was the greater home of the mountains, and traditions that they had, like the boys going raccoon hunting, or making molasses, killing a hog -- the day-to-day of self-survival.
The farms and the plant, which can kill seven million hogs a year, belong to Smithfield Foods, the world's largest hog producer and pork processor -- and the company at the center of a fierce debate over the rise of big agriculture.
And when they killed their hogs, they made link sausages and liver pudding and lard.
James F. Stone, a rancher in Lockhart, estimated that he had killed 500 hogs over the last three years on his property — 80 since January.
Then, suddenly, I noticed that there were seven different regularly scheduled shows about real housewives, three about people who bid on abandoned storage lockers and two about people who kill wild hogs for a living.
But she also attempts to use historical events like the 1933 Hog Reduction Program (a controversial plan instituted by Franklin D. Roosevelt to raise prices by paying farmers to kill off hogs, thereby reducing the surplus) to buoy the plot and add color to the characters' interactions.
I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun.
"If you killed a hog, you shared it; if you had extra eggs, you gave them to a neighbor".
