Bone Picker
Bone pickers meticulously removed remaining meat scraps from discarded bones for resale or processing. This tedious and often smelly work was done mostly by impoverished laborers looking to survive in tough economic times.
Though lowly and unsanitary, bone picking was part of a broader system of resourcefulness. Modern food safety and waste management laws ended the trade, relegating it to history’s dustbin.
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