On Dec 7, 7:43*pm, "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote:
> Last Saturday I met a fellow I've not seen in months. He works for an
> engineering company and the present project is at a hog slaughterhouse.
> They do in 18,000 hogs a day, six days a week.. *They have 2000 workers on
> two nine hour shifts and 900 people come in every night and clean and
> sanitize for six hours.
>
> Processing a hog used to take 180 gallons of water. *His job is to reduce
> that and it is down to 143 gallons per hog. *Gas is used to burn the hair
> off of the skin in an automated line.
>
> Getting to the subject though, the blood (after the plasma is removed) from
> all of these hogs is shipped to cosmetic companies and it becomes an
> ingredient in lipstick. *So, think about what you are kissing some nights.

Thank's Ed, that's a good one! I don't even want to check Snopes, lol.