Boiled and skinned alive! - The Petition Site: "BOILED AND SKINNED ALIVE? If you eat chicken, ham, bacon or beef, then you probably eat an animal that was boiled or skinned alive at least once a week. Shockingly, slaughterhouse workers admit to deliberately beating, strangling, boiling, or dismembering animals alive. "Today’s slaughter line does not stop for anything: Not for injured workers, not for contaminated meat, and least of all, not for sick or disabled animals. Due to meteoric line speeds, workers are often unable to stun or bleed animals adequately, and, as a result, animals proceed through the butchering process fully conscious. In the words of one worker: "These hogs get up to the scalding tank, hit the water, and just start screaming and kicking. I'm not sure whether the hogs burn to death before drowning. The water is 140 degrees." Poultry, exempt from coverage under the Humane Slaughter Act, are routinely conscious when immersed in the scald tank as well. Following long government paper trails, it is revealed t... m"
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