How Pork Rinds Are Made (VIDEO)

In case you haven't gotten enough behind-the-scenes industrial food production footage from Food, Inc., we've got a video for you. Highlights include flying pig pellets, food coloring talk, and large vats of lard.

Don't say we didn't warn you.

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Comments

[XPat100]

10:06 AM on 07/13/2009

Thank goodness they haven't discovered a way to transmit odors through the internet. How do I become a vegetarian?

[elizlucinda]

09:04 AM on 07/13/2009

I'm just a little girl from the South (of Canada), so I don't understand the fascination with pork rinds. I'm not even sure you can buy them here.

[steppenwolfsayshi]

09:01 AM on 07/13/2009

I don't eat processed food but this video isn't gross. It's just cooking meat with a big machine. I don't get the point. What's gross about processsed food is the chemicals and the unhealthy amount of salt and sugar use to preserve it, but for that you sort of just have to use your imagination.

[Kevbo68]

07:08 AM on 07/13/2009

Delicious! Now I have a craving for them.

[lazywhiteamerican]

04:02 AM on 07/13/2009

I love pork rinds, I have always wondered if they really were piggy peals. Sho nuff is. Very interesting video. The technical details are fascinating. I am not sure why it is apparently supposed to make me go "eeewwww" though.

[watchandwait]

10:58 PM on 07/12/2009

Growing up in the South, I used to help my grandparents MAKE them. I wish I'd had the option of doing it the way the people are in the video than BY HAND where I had to help "harvest" the skin myself...

[jsrl317]

09:22 PM on 07/12/2009

OMG! I used to love pork rinds, after this, I promise never to stop eating them. I could not stop laughing! Food, especially meat, has always been messy and nasty, and if you eat meat there should be nothing in this you should not already know. If I were vegan, I would not stop throwing up! LMAO

[littlespeaker]

07:33 PM on 07/12/2009

You know, being vegan or vegetarian really isn't that hard, contrary to popular believe. All it takes is some compassion and self-discipline.

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
-Jeremy Bentham

[Seaglass]

10:01 AM on 07/13/2009

-Cue violins-

[LeRoiEstMort]

06:58 PM on 07/12/2009

Delicious! I just love chicharrónes.

[preatorius]

06:40 PM on 07/12/2009

100 years ago, people ate all of the animals they killed. The other parts were used for tools, or clothing.
Super markets have removed the process of killing your food. If more people had to kill, skin and clean their food, we would have less obesist, and more vegetarians!

[Gover]

08:34 PM on 07/12/2009

Yeah and if we all had to hunt our food and forage for nuts in the forest, we wouldn't have art or literature or science or computers or HuffingtonPosts because we'd all be half-starved trying to feed ourselves.

Great logic man. Lets do EVERYTHING for ourselves and not specialize. That's how you build an efficient society alright.

[IWantTofu]

05:49 PM on 07/12/2009

Some things are better left unknown.

[lazywhiteamerican]

04:04 AM on 07/13/2009

I suppose, but this is not one of them.

[cjk002]

05:26 PM on 07/12/2009

MMMMMM...... Pork rinds.....

[Name Not In Use]

04:17 PM on 07/12/2009

They are basically zero carb.
Atkins dieters can eat all they want.
They are one of the few crunchy foods on an Atkins diet.

[MaxPowerXP]

11:19 AM on 07/13/2009

They're also not as bad for you as everyone thinks they are, seeing as how they're mostly air

[robbyJ]

04:16 PM on 07/12/2009

It's better than Soylent Green.

For some reason that video made me hungry.

It really is better than trashing them though.

[garystartswithg]

03:12 PM on 07/12/2009

evreything goes better with lard! Why didn't they show them skinning pigs? that would make a few people go vegan.

[GreenEyedGuru]

03:55 PM on 07/12/2009

We gotta do something with the skin..

[cjk002]

05:28 PM on 07/12/2009

Why would you think that people are so stupid as to not understand that animals have to be killed and skinned for their meat?

[scottowego]

06:57 PM on 07/12/2009

Buy Local!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!