Describe the process of kill-floor work.

What will be an ideal response?


The hog is herded in from the stockyard,then stunned with an electric gun. It is lifted onto a conveyor belt, dazed but not dead,and passed to a waiting group of men wearing bloodstained smocks and blank faces.They slit the neck, shackle the hind legs and watch a machine lift the carcass into the air,letting its life flow out in a purple gush, into a steaming collection trough.The carcass is run through a scalding bath, trolleyed over the factory floor, and thendumped onto a table. Men slit along its hind tendons and skewer the beast with hooks. It is again liftedand shot across the room on a pulley and bar, where it hangs with hundreds of others.

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Currently, about ________ of American couples cohabit without marriage

A) 5.1% B) 8% C) 15.5% D) 32%

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