When is the last time you folks seen this? I haven't seen one in ten years and I was hoping I would never see it again. I was cutting away on the saw this afternoon then it suddenly just exploded with pus, disgusting. I believe it cancer. what do you call it? i spent 20 minutes cleaning tools and my hands and changing my apron luckily it was the last thing to cut on the saw for the day. just the site of it makes me sick.
was that pumped pork???? We have that problem sometimes with pumped pork The Hormel guy explained that the needles are sometimes not sanitized all that well and they cause the flesh to rot inside
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I see that once in a while. A few times per year. We found a huge one in a lamb shoulder last week. It seems like the bigger ones are usualy in the shoulder. I've seen them in other areas too. I don't know if I've even seen one in the middle of a pork loin.
thats gross can you imagin if i customer bought that as a roast and you guys missed it i wanna barf thinking of it..lol............i have never got pork like that........i do rember years ago people telling me a lady brought a whole chicken back cause it had something like that in the breast i didnt see it my self though
Ive had customers bring in hogs that contain pus pockets and we throw the whole thing away! Normally I find them in the rear legs, and I have found them in the side meat as well. It is disgusting to see but the smell is even worse!!!! Usually they are from an injury the animal suffered and did not heal or got infected.
Sometimes tumors look like that, I've seen them on lamb every once in awhile. I've seen pus pockets on pork loins before. It's been 10+ years or so, but it usually occured in the hip region around the sirloin. Almost always there.
aaaaaaaawe...welcome to MY world on a daily basis lol...we call them abcesses* I hit 2-3 a day the smell at times is nough to make ya yack my first real bad one did have me dry heaving...As long as the lymphatic system is healthy the animal goes through..We trim out said infection and surrounding flesh...When we come across them durin breakin if it's unruptured we just trim it out if you are unlucky enough to rupture it you trim it and any surroundin flesh...hogs are bad for the jowl..picnic (shoulder) and rear leg area all injection sites..
Lena hit the nail right on the head. Abscesses. When running a high speed kill line periodically you will hit an abscess. The ones that I viewed happen to be in the neck area or cheek area however, abscess can come about anywhere on the carcass. It is remarkable that live cattle can deal with abscesses however, some large abscesses can be detrimental to their health and they begin to loose weight. In a cow kill operation abscesses are a daily occurrence.
With well feed cattle the occurrence of abscesses is not as prevalent. In a meat packing plant abscesses can cause serious down time which increases the cost because many times the line has to be stopped to take care of the affected carcass.
Many attribute them to sharp-pointed material in the feed or forage that cause small puncture wounds which become colonized by pathogenic bacteria, which leads to abscess formation. Humans experience abbesses as well as cattle.
With well feed cattle the occurrence of abscesses is not as prevalent. In a meat packing plant abscesses can cause serious down time which increases the cost because many times the line has to be stopped to take care of the affected carcass.
Do you think that might be why they get passed through and end up being shipped to the stores?
I'm sure some small abscess get buy but not all abscesses need treatment. The larger bad ones do require attention and caution.
As an example when I was chicken man in one of the A& P Stores back in the day. I pricked my long finger on my right hand from a breast bone. Back then you didn't buy parts you cut your own. The tip of the bone got lodged under the nail of my long finger. Only a small drop of my blood came out. So I washed my hands and applied rubbing alcohol under the nail and continued to work. That night the darn thing still hurt but I thought it clear up. The next morning I work up that finger was a little puffy but the pain was gone. Two days later that finger got really swollen so the department manger had a look see and he said go over to the State Hospital in Scranton, Pa and let them have a look at it.
I got there and they took me right in and sat me on a chair that was up against a wall. The intern took my finer and squeezed it and I nearly punched him right in the mouth. The @#$% pain was unbelievable. He said it is abscessed, I said ok what now? He said I have to make a little incision to relieve the pressure and get that pus out of there. I said go ahead. So I watched him take this small scalpel and just poke a little hole under my nail on the long finger. The pus came out like a projectile and hit him in the chest. That was the last I remember. LOL>LOL>LOL> I passed out!!LOLOLOL> for a few seconds or until my friggin head hit the wall behind the chair and snapped me out of my unconsciousness. LOL>LOL>
Actually this is what happens with cattle, sometimes they get a small cut, or graze on grass that may contain wood, nails or what ever. The foreign object gets into the gut or between the hide and flesh and they form abscesses just like us humans.
That is horrible. I just referred to it as an infection. It makes me think of a movie where Aliens from different planets embed themselves in humans, then when you puncture the infected area it spits out and infects someone else.
