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  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. Pig carcasses cooling. USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • USA_AG_BEEF_30_xs.Cattle drowned during a Sacramento River Delta flood caused by a levee break are loaded onto a truck with a crane. USA.
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  • Meat being grilled in an open pit in a window display to attract hungry pedestrians at La Estancia restaurant. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. USA.
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  • Poultry. Turkey slaughterhouse in Lincoln, California, USA.
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Fattened Hereford cattle are herded into pens to await the tractor-trailers used to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch cattle feed lot, the Harris Feeding Company, in Coalinga, California. California's largest feed lot with up to 100,000 head of cattle. Fattened Hereford cattle are herded into pens to await the tractor-trailers used to transport them to the company's slaughterhouse in nearby Selma, California. Coalinga, California. San Joaquin Valley. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. A worker in a red hardhat trims beef. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Villagers inspect the carcass of a cow they slaughtered after it swallowed more than 10 kilograms of plastic bags and became critically bloated in a village near Narouk, Kenya.  This discovery came at the cost of two cattle in a culture that values livestock highly. In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Here the dead calf is removed from the birth sack. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
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  • A human skull on the sandy banks of the Ganges River. across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi.
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  • Dog meat is displayed at Cho Chau Long Market in Hanoi, Vietnam. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef cattle heads. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
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  • Across the Ganges River from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India, human remains wash up on the sandy shore. A human skull.
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  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California, kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Here a worker skins a cow. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system   (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • .Animal slaugher and rendering area behind Phousy public market in Ban Saylom Village, just south of Luang Prabang, Laos.
    LAO_120129_106_x.jpg
  • A decomposing cow floats in the Ganges River across from the cremation ghats in Varanasi, India. Human remains also wash up on the sandy shore on this side of the Ganges. Varanasi, India.
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  • Sam Tucker, lobsterman and fish buyer at Portland Maine Fish Exchange with a deer he shot near his house on Great Diamond Island, Portland, Maine. (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Sam Tucker, lobsterman and fish buyer at Portland Maine Fish Exchange with a deer he shot near his house on Great Diamond Island, Portland, Maine.  (Samuel Tucker is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED
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  • A man holds up a mass of plastic bags retrieved from the stomach of a pregnant cow that became critically bloated and had to be slaughtered in a village near Narouk, Kenya. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In the dry, near desert conditions of drought stricken Kenya, discarded plastic bags are eaten by cows while grazing. Maasai wealth is derived from the cattle owned, the land, and the number of children born to support the family busines, which is cattle and goats.
    KEN_090225_388_xxw.jpg
  • A woman scrapes a sheep's skin of its hair in the snow in Ghayoumabad village, near the highway between Yazd and Esfahan in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains of central Iran. She will use the sheep skin to make a bag to hold traditional yogurt.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Noolkisaruni Tarakuai (center), the third of four wives of a Maasai chief, oversees the slaughter of her pregnant cow, which became critically bloated after it ingested plastic bags resulting in a 10 kilogram mass that obstructed it's digestive system. (Noolkisaruni Tarakuai is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Photographer Peter Menzel in front of cooling beef carcass parts. The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA .[[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_21_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_20_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a huge refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA [[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_22_xs.jpg
  • The Harris Ranch slaughterhouse, the Harris Beef Company, in Selma, California kills more than 700 head of cattle a day. Beef carcasses are cooled in a large refrigerated room. San Joaquin Valley, California. USA .[[From the company: THE HARRIS FARMS GROUP OF COMPANIES. Harris Farms, Inc. is one of the nation's largest, vertically integrated family owned agribusinesses]].
    USA_AG_BEEF_19_xs.jpg
  • Standing beneath hanging sheep carcasses, five sheep wait patiently; soon it will be their turn at the slaughterhouse, which is attached to the Zumbagua market in Ecuador. At the live-animal market a quarter mile away, shoppers can pick out the animals they want, then have them killed, skinned, and cleaned. The entire process, including the time it takes to walk the sheep from the market to the slaughterhouse, takes less than an hour. Hungry Planet: What the World Eats (p. 113).
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  • Mamebogo Marumo sits under the partial shade of a mopane tree as she squeezes the insides out of mopane worms, keeping the carcasses to be salted, cooked, and dried to be eaten. The mopane worm is actually the caterpillar of the anomalous emperor moth (Imbrasia belina), one of the larger moths in the world. Dried mopane worms have three times the protein content of beef and can be stored for many months. Botswana. (Man Eating Bugs page 131 Bottom)
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  • Kelvin Lester maneuvers a 2,000-pound bin of ?50s? (carcass trimmings that are half fat) toward the grinding and blending machines at the Rochester Meat Company in Grand Meadow, Minnesota. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Less desirable trimmings with a higher fat content are ground into blends with different percentages of lean meat. The ton of 50s is added to other leaner cuts, and sometimes reconstituted beef fat?which is even cheaper?is mixed in as well.
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  • Vultures pick away at a carcass of a dead cow on the dry floodplain of the Niger River in the W. African village of Kouakourou, Mali. Material World Project.
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  • Erika Madsen will butcher the seal, keep the best cuts for the family, save some seal fat for fishing, and give the rest of the carcass to their sled dogs. Seal continues to be an important source of meat for some Greenlanders, but for many, Danish food has replaced it in the native diet.  Cap Hope, Greenland. (From a photographic gallery of meat and poultry images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 164).
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Peter Menzel Photography

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