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This educational video shows pork and meat products manufactured in a United States factory sometime in the 1950's. A feature of the U.S. hog industry has been the rapid shift to fewer and larger operations, associated with the advent of electricity, and technological change created an ever evolving industry structure. The United States is the world's third-largest producer and consumer of pork and pork products. The US is also the world's largest producer exporter of pork and pork products, with exports averaging over 20 percent of commercial pork production in most years. U.S. hog operations today tend to be heavily concentrated in the Midwest and in eastern North Carolina. Ham and bacon are popular foods in the west, and their consumption has increased with industrialization where in Asia is has a long history. Bacon is defined as "meat taken from the sides, belly or back that have been cured and/or smoked". Bacon is usually smoked, using various types of wood, a process which can take up to ten hours, traditionally no sugar was ever used, only salt as a preservative, and never frozen. The canned meat calls "Spam" was born from its origins in from 1941 America. Its made of chopped pork shoulder, grinded up bone, meat and ham, smashed into a paste, then forced into a can. For more information on Pork processing online go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork#Processed_pork FOLLOW ON: https://twitter.com/DocArchive https://www.facebook.com/documentarytube.net