[Reader-list] slaughterhouse research status

[Ritika]

hey everybody,


First: I have uploaded lots of images on my blog. SO those of you who 
want to just see and not read: please visit my blog:

http://blog.sarai.net/users/ritika
(u might just have to cut and paste the link in a browser)

Work on the front of the slaughterhouse research is going on. Though i 
am on this stage where i am going back to the meaterial that i have 
generated so far - and wondering if i can ask some interesting questions 
out it.

I have few lines of enquiry which i can follow but wondering how 
fruitful they'd be.


So what do i want to write about a space which is source to many 
industries - big and small, for instance, food processing industry, meat 
industry, leather industry, pharmaceutical, Cosmetics etc. However, as a 
space which performs certain specific activity, it creates nuisance and 
causes concern for some. A peek into the history of the existing 
slaughterhouse reveals a tendency of location of nuisance in the city. 
Dirt/ nuisance/ waste is always pushed 'out of core' to its 
periphery.but then how does one question it? There is a rhetoric of 
hygeine? but how do i question it?

Q1) so then perhaps it'll be interesting to see what has been the 
history of the idgah slaughterhouse in terms of its location.


Q2) I was wondering whether it'll be a worthwhile effort to locate the 
context in which the word nuisance appears in the vocabularly of the 
city. (through state archives).I think it can be like a detective story 
but wonder what'll come out of it.


Q) what happens to the waste that is generated?
- In a way - whatever 'waste' that is generated is actually not waste 
-pancreas, endocrine glands, liver, intestines, bile secretions, 
lungs,testes, trimmings and stomach, brain and spinal cord, hides and 
skins,tail hair, bristles and body hair, bones, hooves and horns etc., 
all can be and some of them are being used further from the delhi 
slaughterhouse. The stuff which is then not used is thrown on municipal 
landfill sites. On an average 500 - 600 Tonnes of waste is produced by 
slaughterhouse itself.


Q) How does the slaughterhouse trade operate: It works at 2 basic levels 
1) how to buy/ sell animals etc (which is what i have been doing so far) 
2) allied trade industry: I can get in touch with the people who buy 
this material (mentioned in 1st question - pancreas, glands etc) and 
sell it to bigger companies. how do they operate, middlemen involved, 
eg. allied trades. pharmaceuticals, leather. Or perhaps: processed food
industries etc.

Sugegstions anyone?

cheers
ritika


-- 
Ritika Shrimali
The Sarai Programme

http://blog.sarai.net/users/ritika