Three Deaths, One by Extreme Wedgie, One Inhumane Killing of Pigs, and One of my Appetite for Chicken

Bear with me on this subject of three deaths recently noted in the news.

This first one I so wish was a joke but it wasn't because a man was suffocated by his own underwear during an altercation with his stepson in Oklahoma. The man’s underwear was yanked up the stepfather's back and over his head so that the waistband was around his neck, authorities said. This happened at the end of a fight over the holidays and the state's medical examiner said Wednesday that St. Clair's cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head or asphyxia.

The second one is about Tyson Food’s reaction to the expose that NBC did with hidden cameras of the inhumane killing of pigs. The video was horrible enough to put me off bacon and this right after I discovered how much I love Bacon Catalina salad dressing. The time honored, considered humane method of killing piglets is to slam their heads onto the concrete floor because their skulls are not yet hardened. In the video some of the piglets did not die instantaneously but rather wallowed in puddles of blood for up to thirty minutes. Now Tyson Foods is reviewing this slaughter method and has decided that they will have stricter regulations on the continued slamming of piglets onto the concrete to ensure they don’t take so long to die.

The last one that’s impact is enough to put me off chicken too is the story about the cockroach infested chicken processing plant and all the cases of salmonella related to Foster Foods chicken products. I have chickens of my own and haven’t been able to even think about watching the chicken slaughter exposes, especially after the pig video. Apparently the Foster Foods Chicken plant will reopen after sanitizing, or death to millions of cockroaches.