Dave Green

Dave Pape now works in the middle-management of the customer services dept of a major British food processing company, and sends me e-mail like:

"Mechanical removal of feet;

birds rehung;

singeing - to remove all remaining hair;

1st vent cutter - to remove anus of the bird;

head/trachea puller - minimum of 80% must be removed;

2nd vent borer - to cut intestual cavity;

birds eviscerated - viscera removed;

PMI inspection - hens rejected/passed;

gutting line - back-up gutters;

cropper - machine to remove crops;

lung sucker."