MASON CITY – A person sometimes called the world’s leading expert on humane animal handling at meat packing plants would help put the “final touches” on the Prestage Foods pork plant in Mason City, should it be built, NIT is told.
Dr. Temple Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and widely considered to be the world’s leading expert on humane animal handling at meat packing plants.
NIT is told by Mayor Eric Bookmeyer that Dr. Grandin “will be on the ground in Mason City to put final touches on this plant” if it is built. The development faces city council scrutiny one last time on May 3, then Prestage Foods must finish other permitting and land acquisition tasks before ground would be broken later this summer.
NIT was invited to share a video with our audience – part of “The Glass Walls Project” – showing “an honest look at how pigs are handled at pork packing plants” through a guided tour with Dr. Grandin.
This fascinating video shows how pigs are handled at a pork processing plant – from the farm to the plant itself. The pigs at the Prestage plant that may come to Mason City would be CO2 gassed prior to slaughter. Watch the video if you have an interest in the processes at a pork processing plant.