Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill from inhaling PIG BRAINS

ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet! Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
edited December 2007 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">crazy D:</div><a href="http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/S/SLAUGHTERHOUSE_ILLNESS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-07-20-38-21" target="_blank"><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Wired News - <!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--><!--sizeo:3--><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%"><!--/sizeo-->Minn. Slaughterhouse Workers Fall Ill<!--sizec--></span><!--/sizec--></a>
<!--QuoteBegin-Wired+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wired)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->On the slaughterhouse floor at Quality Pork Processors Inc. is an area known as the "head table," [...] where workers cut up pigs' heads and then shoot compressed air into the skulls until the brains come spilling out. [...] Over eight months from last December through July, 11 workers at the plant in Austin, Minn. - <b>all of them employed at the head table - developed numbness, tingling or other neurological symptoms, and some <u>scientists suspect inhaled airborne brain matter may have somehow triggered the illnesses.</u></b><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<img src="http://a.abcnews.com/images/Health/brain_pig_071207_ms.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
^lawl, googled up "pig brain" ftw

That's straight out of science fiction, though... serious D:

edit: apparently it's <i>conjecture</i> that it was the brains that caused it, since the workers who have fallen ill were at the head table.
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    Symptoms of the illness included:

    Sever speech impediments
    Paleness of skin
    Social disconnection
    Chronic dizziness
    Violent tendencies
    Hunger for brains
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    edited December 2007
    it's not that sci-fi. prion diseases make a mess of your brains, not that it's the case here, but I wouldn't be surprised that they would've contract some sort of viral or bacterial infection from working with chunks of meat all day.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    That's why we have huge taboos against cannibalism; way back when, if you ate another dude's brain, you'd have trouble. Filter that through thousands of years of culture, and blammo. Everyone hates you if you're Hannibal Lector. Go figure.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663460:date=Dec 10 2007, 09:54 AM:name=enf0rcer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(enf0rcer @ Dec 10 2007, 09:54 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663460"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it's not that sci-fi.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    But it was PIG brains :\
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    There's also the slight issue of murder usually being a prerequisite for cannibalism. That MIGHT have something to do with it. >_>
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    it would be cooler if inhaling the pig brains gave them Swine Powers. I don't know what those powers would be. maybe the ability to sniff out truffles.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663464:date=Dec 10 2007, 10:06 AM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Dec 10 2007, 10:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663464"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it would be cooler if inhaling the pig brains gave them Swine Powers. I don't know what those powers would be. maybe the ability to sniff out truffles.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Aww <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663463:date=Dec 10 2007, 12:03 PM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Dec 10 2007, 12:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663463"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There's also the slight issue of murder usually being a prerequisite for cannibalism. That MIGHT have something to do with it. >_><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Right, but think about the stigma attached to murder, then think about the stigma attached to killing someone and then eating them. Luke Skywalker kills more stormtroopers than I have friends and nobody bats an eye. If he munched on one of their arms afterwards? Blammo.
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  • locallyunscenelocallyunscene Feeder of Trolls Join Date: 2002-12-25 Member: 11528Members, Constellation
    Eating the brains of animals is actually not that uncommon in other places. <i>Inhaling</i> them is a pretty new thing I would imagine. Factory farms for the lose.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    That picture's really cute... kinda makes me feel bad for just eating a hot dog.
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  • DepotDepot The ModFather Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7956Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663487:date=Dec 10 2007, 04:11 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Dec 10 2007, 04:11 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663487"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That picture's really cute... kinda makes me feel bad for just eating a hot dog.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Nothing on this earth could make me feel bad for eating a hot dog. Nothing...
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    I'm mostly curious as to why they shoot up compressed air in a pig's head to have their brains spill out
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  • DiscoZombieDiscoZombie Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663490:date=Dec 10 2007, 04:38 PM:name=Cereal_KillR)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Cereal_KillR @ Dec 10 2007, 04:38 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663490"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I'm mostly curious as to why they shoot up compressed air in a pig's head to have their brains spill out<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    this is a good question. maybe they use the resulting brain paste for dog food or other farm animal feed? =d
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  • pardzhpardzh Join Date: 2002-10-25 Member: 1601Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663460:date=Dec 10 2007, 01:54 PM:name=enf0rcer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(enf0rcer @ Dec 10 2007, 01:54 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663460"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it's not that sci-fi. prion diseases make a mess of your brains, not that it's the case here, but I wouldn't be surprised that they would've contract some sort of viral or bacterial infection from working with chunks of meat all day.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I definitely thought, "prions!" right away when I read the title too.
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  • PerfectionsFlawPerfectionsFlaw Join Date: 2003-02-14 Member: 13555Members
    This is why the Egyptians developed the highly advanced hook tool to remove the brain via the nostril.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663508:date=Dec 10 2007, 03:13 PM:name=PerfectionsFlaw)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(PerfectionsFlaw @ Dec 10 2007, 03:13 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663508"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This is why the Egyptians developed the highly advanced hook tool to remove the brain via the nostril.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'm pretty sure that's actually because they didn't have compressed air <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    I have the strangest mental image of how this works. They put the compressed air tub onto a special receptacle on the back of the pigs head, and when they turn it on the brain just oozes out of the nostrils like how play-dough would when you forced it through those little square shaped holes in the molding machines.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663515:date=Dec 10 2007, 04:39 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Dec 10 2007, 04:39 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663515"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I have the strangest mental image of how this works. They put the compressed air tub onto a special receptacle on the back of the pigs head, and when they turn it on the brain just oozes out of the nostrils like how play-dough would when you forced it through those little square shaped holes in the molding machines.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    I think of it more like, they just spray compressed air into the base of the skull, and brains just f*ing burst out. Awesome. :U
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663489:date=Dec 10 2007, 04:16 PM:name=Depot)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Depot @ Dec 10 2007, 04:16 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663489"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Nothing on this earth could make me feel bad for eating a hot dog. Nothing...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Eating it slowly in front of 3000 starving children all looking up at you with their big round eyes. The only sound coming from bun and meat squishing between your incisors.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Great. Now I can never eat without feeling guilty again.
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    I could see the fun in that though. Might be irony. I got the T-shirt but never got around to doing it.
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  • Paranoia2MBParanoia2MB Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7832Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663464:date=Dec 10 2007, 01:06 PM:name=DiscoZombie)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DiscoZombie @ Dec 10 2007, 01:06 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663464"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->it would be cooler if inhaling the pig brains gave them Swine Powers. I don't know what those powers would be. maybe the ability to sniff out truffles.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->


    Spider-pig powers! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" />
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    you know I thought depot made this thread at first, what with the long descriptive title with CAPS included.
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  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1663487:date=Dec 10 2007, 04:11 PM:name=Liku)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Liku @ Dec 10 2007, 04:11 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1663487"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->That picture's really cute... kinda makes me feel bad for just eating a hot dog.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Living in kentucky and seeing many pig farms, pigs are by far the most vile animal ever. Their violent in groups, and their extremely filthy.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664015:date=Dec 14 2007, 04:28 PM:name=Drfuzzy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Drfuzzy @ Dec 14 2007, 04:28 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664015"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Living in kentucky and seeing many pig farms, pigs are by far the most vile animal ever. Their violent in groups, and their extremely filthy.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Wow, it's almost like they're humans!
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    Except humans don't live in Kentucky.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1664024:date=Dec 14 2007, 03:55 PM:name=Abra)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Abra @ Dec 14 2007, 03:55 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1664024"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Except humans don't live in Kentucky.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    you forgot the ZINNNGGGGGGGGG
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  • AbraAbra Would you kindly Join Date: 2003-08-17 Member: 19870Members
    I'll go with "POW-ha! ha!" (get the reference and win a E-cookie) <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/nerd-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::nerdy::" border="0" alt="nerd-fix.gif" />
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