Men perk up about coming to Austin, the closest big city, because they can shop for everything from camouflage dog-vests to hunting stands to meat grinders.

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In addition to producing employee time-keeping equipment, they also made mechanical meat slicers, coffee grinders, and weight scales.

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Slaughterhouses that process 300 or more animals an hour and pass them through the same grinders allow a single infected carcass potentially to taint tens of thousands of kilos of meat.

ECONOMIST: Food safety