ENVS 2130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Polyface Farm
20 Nov 2015
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Of course, even on polyface farm, the animals ultimately are slaughtered. Wanting to get a better sense of how salatin"s chickens become his dinner, pollan participates in processing salatin"s broilers that is, killing them. Salatin and his crew show pollan how to round up the chickens into boxes and then slip them into upside-down killing cones, so that their throats can be slit. Pollan is nervous about killing his first chicken, but the assembly line or deassembly line, as he calls it moves too quickly to allow much reflection. Before long he has killed about a dozen chickens, and while he hasn"t grown number to the feeling of slitting their throats, he still finds it discomfiting how quickly he got used to the slaughtering. But it is farm from senseless killing; by the time the morning is over, more than 300 broilers have been processed and customers are picking them up from their post-slaughter ice water bath.
