Coffee the Hard Way

Wikipedia sez:

This is a process that was used with farm animals at one time. This process involves the placing of a carcass into a sealed chamber, which then puts the carcass in a mixture of lye and water, which breaks chemical bonds keeping the body intact. This eventually turns the body into a coffee-like liquid, and the only solid remains are bone hulls, which could be crushed between one's fingertips.

Unless I am mistaken, the idea of a farm is to get more animals, by feeding them and sheltering them and guarding them. Then later on, you slaughter them and sell the meat. I am not sure how you would get the notion that what you really want to do is dissolve your animals in lye. Unless the resulting liquid is a delicacy to farmers, like the liquid evolved from silage. Apparently it is "coffee-like", although I'm not sure how.

You know what? I think what happened is that one of this guy's animals fell into his vat of lye, and he just stuck around to see what would happen. Then he wrote a Wikipedia article like he meant it to go that way all along.