How the meat we eat is made

Buying meat in supermarkets almost every day, you can get used to the idea that it grows on trees, and it is simply collected and brought to stores in plastic packaging. But the reality is different, and the production of the meat you eat is an international slaughterhouse. If you are used to seeing cows and pigs happily running around meadows and pastures, get ready for a terrible sight, or better not watch this post at all.

Caution, in the post hard photos! The impressionable do not enter!!

(Total 44 photos)

1. A cow that will die in a few minutes. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

2. The slaughtered cows were left to drain the blood. The picture was taken at a slaughterhouse in the British city of Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

3. A butcher sharpens a knife at a slaughterhouse in Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

4. Slaughterhouse workers butcher a cow. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

5. A set of butcher's tools. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

6. A slaughterhouse worker prepares a cow for cutting. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

7. Workers carve cows in Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

8. Typical working day…(RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

9. A slaughterhouse worker butchers a cow. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

10. Identification card on a cow carcass. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

11. Office in the slaughterhouse in Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

12. The worker aligns the carcasses of cows. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

13. Sorting beef legs. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

14. Pork carcasses in the cold store slaughterhouse in Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

15. A shop worker pushes carcasses of cows into a cold store. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

16. A shop worker drives out pigs for slaughter. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

17. A worker cuts a pig's throat. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

18. Roasting a pig carcass. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

19. Treatment of slaughtered pigs. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

20. Shop workers carve pigs. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

21. Hundreds of pigs killed at a meat processing plant in Santarem. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

22. Cleaning up the crime scene. (RAFAEL MARCHANTE/REUTERS)

23. Cows ready for slaughter. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

24. In a few minutes they will be killed. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

25. A herd of cows is driven out of the corrals at the meat processing plant in Schuler. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

26. An employee of a meat processing plant in Schuler against the background of butchered parts of cows. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

27. An employee of the slaughterhouse in Schuler inspects ground beef. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

28. A shop worker cuts beef. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

29. Shop workers cut beef. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

30. Cutting beef. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

31. Really fun job. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

32. Butchering beef at the meat processing plant in Schuler. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

33. Equipment repair right in the shop. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

34. Cargill slaughterhouse workers in Schuler. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

35. Workshop where heads are cut off carcasses. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

36. Processing beef carcasses. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

37. A shop worker cuts off the head of a carcass. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

38. Processing beef meat processing plant in Schuler. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

39. Sawing a beef carcass in half. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

40. Beef in boxes is almost ready for sale. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

41. Workers monitor the operation of equipment that works with fine-textured meat. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

42. A piece of compressed beef on the conveyor. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

43. Fine-textured beef at the Schuler meatpacking plant. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)

44. Juanita Armendariz monitors various processes in a meat packing plant. (LANE HICKENBOTTOM/REUTERS)