Chicken slaughter

the most surprising thing about slaughtering a hundred chickens is how enjoyable the process can be.  you’ve never seen a happier bunch of people—mostly eager volunteers—surrounded by buckets of blood, feathers, heads, and guts.  like a well oiled machine of all human cogs, we grab, crate, slit, drain, scald, pluck, behead, delimb, eviscerate, wash, check and chill in smooth unison.  like any impressive group effort—like a perfectly timed band, or spain over the dutch—the true magic comes when all start flowing as one.

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