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20070407.slaughter.05.WAV

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dobroide

April 8th, 2007

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Sound effects > Animals
Cabra, Córdoba, Spain
rural scenes

not for the faint of heart, young pigs' slaughter. Recorded in a country house's open yard near Cabra, S Spain. Sennheiser ME66 + MKH30, Shure FP24 preamp, Edirol R09 recorder. It was very hard for me to record this so I hope it's any use.
EDIT: I feel the need to clarify. This is the traditional way of killing the pig in Spanish (and many other countries) rural environment. It is based on bleeding (severance of the major blood vessels), which is not the norm in industrial slaughter houses nowadays. There stunning is applied previously to reduce suffering. I uploaded this to document a cruel traditional practice, for the sake of anthropological interest if you wish. Listeners can extract her/his own ethic/moral implications.

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animal
butchering
death
field-recording
horrific
meat
nature
pig
scream
slaughter
squeal
suffering

Type

Wave (.wav)

Duration

0:13.662

File size

2.3 MB

Sample rate

44100.0 Hz

Bit depth

16 bit

Channels

Stereo

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savimr

6 months ago

Thank you for recording this, though it was hard. It will be helpful for my project in advocation for these animals.

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HMJ_19

4 years, 2 months ago

damn you scared me, also, how did you record this?

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breezeark

10 years, 8 months ago

You are a monster and a demon.

But I'm using this sound in a game...

originalmaja

11 years, 8 months ago

I used a filtered version of this as a 'small whale's scream' in a student's production of "20.000 Miles Under The Sea" (battle scene between The Nautilus and some whales). I'll upload it soon.

chrisgrz

12 years, 8 months ago

what is that??

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