"Bull," the piece by Mo Yan in this week's issue, was excerpted from your forthcoming translation of his novel "POW!" The book follows the story of a boy and his mother struggling to survive a father's abandonment, in a Chinese village that has become the central slaughterhouse for cattle in the region.
They are also investigating 10 local slaughterhouses where cattle parts, including offal, were often turned into specialty meats.
A newspaper reported today that Alberta would soon begin a program to discourage ranchers and feedlot operators from flooding slaughterhouses with cattle in coming months.
In the 1940's the developer William Zeckendorf began buying up property on the east side of Midtown, known as Blood Alley because of the slaughterhouses and cattle pens.
Still, we estimated that 106 pig slaughterhouses processing over 1,000 carcasses over the five years of the study never reported a single carcass condemnation to the FLEKO (the numbers were 35 and 70 slaughterhouses for cattle and small respectively).
The slaughterhouse survey on cattle faeces performed between April 1996 and August 1997 was undertaken to establish if Swedish cattle could be a source of VTEC O157 H7 for human infection.
The company, however, ran afoul of New Mexico environmental regulations when it operated as a cattle slaughterhouse after regulators took photos of piles of rotting carcasses on its property.
One of Harrison Atelier's inspirations for "VEAL" was the book "Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight," by the political scientist Timothy Pachirat, a sobering account of the five months that Pachirat spent working undercover in a Midwestern cattle slaughterhouse, in which he witnessed, and participated in, mass killing.
What I mean to say is: if you were to lead a live cow up to my father, he'd take two turns around it, three at most, occasionally sticking his hand up under the animal's foreleg — just for show — and confidently report its gross weight and the quantity of meat on its bones, always to within a kilo of what might register on the digital scale used in England's largest cattle slaughterhouse.
Different mixture ratios of solid cattle slaughterhouse wastes (SB), manure (M), various crops (VC), and municipal solid wastes (MSW) were investigated for biogas production.
