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The slaughter of the pig looked real. Was it? If so, how did they get it past animal rights groups?

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Yes most definitely real. I assume that if the owner gave permission and the pig wasn't tortured (and meat animals are raised for slaughter), there's nothing to complain about. It was done far more humanely than in a slaughterhouse, that's for sure!

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It was still hard to watch.

"That's something you'll never hear from me, Capt. Butler, as long as you live"

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the movie was made in 1979, they were still using tripwires on horses and even blew a horse up with dynamite in one film, heavens gate. Animal cruelty regulations came later.

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I have to say the slaughter of that hog was upsetting to see and I wasn't expecting it . I would've chosen not to see that scene .

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Yeah that was tough to watch.

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That was about as real as it gets. Animal rights were not yet in effect. People have become so removed from their food. I was raised on a farm and saw plenty of slaughter, mostly chickens. Grandpa would do it in a wholesale lot. He tied the chickens, by their feet, upside down from the clothes line. He'd then just go down the line whacking off their heads. They fluttered and bled like crazy. Did you know if you whack off a chicken's head and turn it loose it will run about?! Well, I could easily be a vegeterian if I didn't like meat so well. Remember next time you buy a meat product safely slaughtered, cleaned and packaged in plastic wrap; it was a living, breathing creature of God put on earth to provide for us. Be thankful and remember your roots.

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I've also seen the way animals are treated, but I also like meat too much to give it up. Films like this are important both for the slaughter scene and the birthing sequence, both of which are rare in films these days. I was very impressed with the realism of this film for those aspects and so many others.

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It was real. They did use the pig to feed the crew so it didn't go to waste and it was actually a quick slaughter. The castration of the calves was also real.

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My grandmother sometimes would wring a chicken's neck by swinging it around in the air by the head. But mostly she had a small hatchet and would chop their head off on a tree stump. They would run around for a bit before falling over. I don't remember much blood. Maybe the hatchet pinched off the neck arteries.

I remember one case in the newspaper back then. A man chopped off a chicken's head and it didn't die. He poured soup down its neck for a few days. But after it made the newspaper the ASPCA pressured him into killing it.

I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else

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Yeah, it was real. The cast and crew ate the pig. The castration of the calves was real, too. I actually viewed this as part of a class in college. It turned out that the class was split. Those of us who grew up in the country pretty much liked the movie and weren't bothered by those scenes. The students who had grown up in the city had a harder time with it.

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The pig was livestock.

That's what happens to livestock, whether the cameras are rolling or not.




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