Day 096 - 03 Mar 95 - Page 50
1 Q. How many people are employed in the plant?
2 A. In the plant, about 380.
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4 Q. So he is responsible for things like hygiene training as
5 well?
6 A. Yes.
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8 Q. And labelling and things like that?
9 A. No.
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11 Q. I mean training in labelling?
12 A. No.
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14 Q. What other things do they train in?
15 A. That is his responsibility in training for hygiene,
16 animal welfare, and he then will make sure that they go on
17 the proper -- on the job training under the management that
18 is responsible for each department.
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20 MR. MORRIS: This water in the lairage spray, the spray, yes, is
21 that what it was, or was it a jet?
22 A. No, sprays.
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24 Q. Sprays. This, you said, was an innovation ---
25 A. In, well ----
26
27 Q. -- in the industry?
28 A. We have -- our type of spraying is slightly different
29 because we have just a spray that comes out in a lazy pool
30 of water, if you like, or call it a jet, whatever you like,
31 and when the pigs come in -- is that what you are speaking
32 about, when they first come into the lairage?
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34 Q. No. I am talking about when they go in to being stunned so
35 that they are wet?
36 A. That is just like a spray with a -----
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38 Q. Hand held?
39 A. A hand held garden hose type of spray.
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41 Q. Most people do not do that in the industry?
42 A. No.
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44 Q. So when was that introduced that practice?
45 A. We have done it for years.
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47 Q. When?
48 A. That is one thing I have forgotten -- we have done it
49 so long.
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51 Q. What is the purpose of doing that?
52 A. (1) You can actually drove a pig with it; (2) it wets
53 the pig so that you can get a better stun.
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55 Q. How far away is it from the stunning pen?
56 A. They drove through, roughly, from here to those doors
57 and say the stunning pen is in those doors. They drove
58 like that and they go along by each peer batch.
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60 Q. How big is the stunning pen again just compared to, say,
