I'm known for my strong stomach: in elementary school, I was the kid who made money by eating different, gross combinations of lunchroom food. Don't laugh — peaches mixed with square hamburgers and every condiment available bought me a community college education. So when a story messes with my cast-adamantium stomach, you know it's pretty sick.
11 workers at Quality Pork Processors in St. Paul, MN, developed numbness, tingling and weakness in limbs and extremities, called chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, after working at the "head table," where they chop up pigs' heads and fire compressed air into the skulls to remove the brains. Scientists at the Mayo Clinic suspect inhaled airborne brain matter may have somehow triggered the illness.
Everyone, you have my permission to hork before continuing with this article.
