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When Pigs Die

11 employees at a pork processing plant in Austin, Texas have been diagnosed with a rare, chronic neurological disease called CIDP. Several teams of health department staffers are converging on the plant to investigate the unusual outbreak. While the exact cause of the disease is not known, some health experts believe that “exposure to blood and pulverized tissue” might have something to do with it. Either that, or some really bad candy found its way into the vending machine.

One sick worker is a 15-year veteran of “carving meat out of the back of the butchered pigs’ heads with a small knife.” She is now debilitated by constant pain and will probably never return to work, which she finds “depressing” because “she liked her job and is sorry she can no longer do it…’I hope that my arms aren’t so weak that I can’t at least get a desk job.'”

That poor woman, robbed of her cherished livelihood. I can only imagine how she feels, knowing that she’ll probably never again engage in the butchery of a pig’s decapitated head. How she will miss the smell of the pig’s brains as they are sucked out of the skull not five feet away from her! To think that she may have to settle for a boring, non-bloody desk job.

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