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May 4th 2009

A Tour of McDonald’s Horrifying Mechanized Meat Factories

If you’re curious about large-scale meat-processing machinery and sanitation procedures, definitely watch this video. If you ever, ever want to eat fast food again, maybe don’t. Made to reassure the public about the safety and quality of McDonald’s meat, this tour of one of their meat providers’ factories is interesting, partly because of the complex,…

Tech News John Herrman May 4 '09

October 1st 2008

20 of the Biggest, Baddest Boring Machines (the Right Kind of Boring)

Sometimes, you just need a huge fucking hole dug. Enter the world’s most interesting boring machines—all big enough to Chunnel their way under vast bodies of water, massive gem mines, that kind of thing. Huge well-ventilated rotating digging heads are the name of the game here—good to ogle from the safety of the internet, because…

Tech News John Mahoney Oct 1 '08

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