Opening up a can of tuna yesterday I was wondering ‘where has the rest of this tuna ended up? How long will it be before the whole fish is eaten, and how much will be wasted’?
Opening up a can of tuna yesterday I was wondering ‘where has the rest of this tuna ended up? How long will it be before the whole fish is eaten, and how much will be wasted’?
It feels like you’re imagining a system where people are loading cans from sides of tuna, when in reality it’s probably much closer to the cans being filled by a machine loaded with a hopper just packed full of large batch tun chunks.
This video seems to suggest that quite a lot of the process is manual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3SbqYAbf4
People deboning, sorting it and so on. It’s not entirely clear but yeah they seem to load hunks of meat in which I guess a machine then places into cans.
Yeah they don’t show the actually canning step it seems, but it looked like they were sorting them into different batches and from my limited experience on packing lines things get big batched.