To Harvest a Pig Nicely | Humane Pork Butchering Guide

Andrew Plotsky of Farmrun, erstwhile apprentice of Farmstead Meatsmith and consummate media artisan, has made another film with us and we put this one on a DVD. It harmonizes with our other films in that it is winsome and educational. Our goal was to show you every step of a proficient pig slaughter, including the curiosity of muscovy drakes. The camera stays faithfully at its post for the entire film, capturing the kill, the scald and scrape, off-screen conversation, the decapitation, the evisceration, the bleating of sheep, the posturing of roosters and the halving of the carcass. We felt that the Pig Slaughter precept in The Butcher’s Salt series provided quite enough words on the subject. So the script for this hour-long documentation is one word.