Like a automotive process only... severing bone muscle and tissue with inhuman accuracy.

Scott Technology Ltd in New Zealand built this system to automate the butchery process. The system xrays each carcass to identify the fat and bones and how make the best cut.

(gets interesting around 0:50)

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doogle says...

weird how this meat lacks blood. Cold system?

Also, this video is lacking a Rage Against The Machine soundtrack. Maybe updated with a techno remix feel or dubstep.
Some of you know what I'm talking about.

raverman says...

Animals are slaughtered at the meatworks where they're hung and bled out before the carcasses are sent on for processing and distribution. The processing areas tend to be pretty white and sterile. Otherwise it would be too hard to keep things clean enough for food handling on an industrial scale.

Kalle says...

Thank you now I have got a new vision of horror flic in my head...
The same video except for one thing.. HUMANS...

rbar says...

Some 20 years ago a group of slaughter houses came to my university to ask us to build similar machines. Before these machines, humans did this kind of work. Next to humans costing more, a bigger problem was that people who wield chainsaws at work to cut through meat tended to stop seeing the difference between their wife and the pig and would take the chainsaw home to work off hours too. Statistics said that 1 in 10 would eventually do that, a huge increase vs the rest of us.

They couldnt find students for it though. No one had the stomach.

Sagemind says...

This is hands down the Number One machine I'd never want to "Fall Into"
My number Two machine would be the "Wood Chipper"

Payback says...

>> ^Sagemind:

This is hands down the Number One machine I'd never want to "Fall Into"
My number Two machine would be the "Wood Chipper"


Locally, and just recently, a gentleman working (inside) a aluminium can "recycling" and crushing machine was killed when the machine was turned back on...

zombieater says...

It looks clean, but in comparison with farmers who butcher and prepare meat at their farms, almost all large factory-driven slaughterhouses are quite dirty using most standards of cleanliness (coliform counts, fecal counts, and other bacterial measures).

Ever seen Food, Inc? Yuck.

zaust says...

>> ^Kalle:

Thank you now I have got a new vision of horror flic in my head...
The same video except for one thing.. HUMANS...


Been done in games - most notably Prey but Quake 4 springs too mind too.

siftbot says...

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 1:25am PDT - promote requested by legacy0100.

jmd says...

>> ^zombieater:

It looks clean, but in comparison with farmers who butcher and prepare meat at their farms, almost all large factory-driven slaughterhouses are quite dirty using most standards of cleanliness (coliform counts, fecal counts, and other bacterial measures).
Ever seen Food, Inc? Yuck.


Well this place probably just opened... so it is still clean in that respect. I would be interested in seeing what their cleaning times and methods were. What is scary is there are blades at every turn in that sucker. Imagine being the one who has to repair and change out blades.

There WAS a distinct lack of spray guards so I am sure bits and pieces are flung all over that you can't see, but it is also compleatly possible that the entire room gets hosed with a cleaning solution infused water fire hose style since the hardware seems pretty sturdy and protected against elements.

zombieater says...

>> ^kymbos:

How long till we completely disassociate meat from animals?


I'm pretty sure that's already happened, at least the meat packing companies hope so. It's not cow, it's "beef", it's now chicken, it's "poultry", it's not pig, it's "pork" - even the wording forces some disassociation.

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