slaughtering a huge pig. > Bonds Gallery

I enter what appears to be a large factory.
It's like an auditorium, but the ceiling is high.
The lighting is a bit dim around the edges. I can't tell because it's evening.
Two long monitors stand at the entrance.
"Where did you put our pigs?"

The manager leading the group mutters to himself.
After passing the monitors,

the auditorium appears. It's incredibly spacious.
About 100 students are waiting in rows and columns.
They're spaced about a meter apart. It seems like some kind of event is going on.
Or perhaps they're intentionally showing it.

Each of these students is given a small piglet.
And they have to raise them again for ten months.
So, today, it seems like they're giving the piglets to the students.

Passing through the left wall of the auditorium, you reach a work area.
There's a slaughter rail installed on the ceiling.
They're slaughtering a huge pig.

It's a huge pig. It must weigh over 300 kilograms.
Its four legs are suspended from the ceiling.

And then,

a chainsaw descends from the ceiling and circles the pig's body,
separating the skin and flesh. It's an automated slaughter.

A single male butcher does this alone.

Because it's automated, even one person can do it.

The suspended pig's internal organs and skin are effortlessly separated.
The chainsaw blades tear off tissue paper with as much ease.

The work is quickly over.

However, they're doing this with a small piglet inside the large pig. I'm puzzled by the explanation that there are piglets inside the large pig,
to be distributed to the students.

Will this interfere with the work? Did I misunderstand? I wonder.

As the work is nearing completion, one of the legs hanging from the ceiling is released.

He skillfully avoids the falling leg and continues his work.

Now, he's moving the pig to the side.

The pig is now reduced to nothing but bone and flesh. This is given to the students, along with the piglets.
The students then raise the piglets for 10 months and bring them back.

On the left, a long chain link is connected to the front of the truck.
This is what transports the pigs.
- Ah, as expected from the USA.
I'm amazed. Moving from the workshop to the truck.
The scale of the work is different. Normally, they'd just push them with their own hands... I'm amazed.

As the truck approaches, I see the structure moving towards me, retreating behind me, and then exiting through the door at the back.

This is the door leading outside.
I go to the left of the door and try to take a quick break.
But, inside,
"What are you doing? I need to wash my towels."

He says to me.
I decide to wash my towels without resistance.

Before the door I exited,

there's a laundry area, knee-deep in water, like a pool.

The water is clear and warm.

It's like a hot spring.

I ask the man there. "How do you wash towels?"
The man then demonstrates his teachings through action.

Inside the rectangular laundry cabinet,

there are two round tubs.
The top one contains rocks. It has three triangular rocks.
It's carbide. It seems to be used for some kind of work.
And below it is the tub for washing clothes.

I look for a towel hanging from the railing on the right.
It's on the floor, probably hanging from the drain.
I think I can just take it out and
wash it in the tub.