The huge, powerful meat and dairy industries are very secretive
about the oppressive conditions affecting not only their non-human
victims, but also their human workers, many of whom are foreigners –
Mexican, Latin American, and Asian. Even though meat packing is the
most dangerous industry in the United States, workers are so afraid of
being fired, that most are silent about the suffering that they
endure; and many vent their frustration in horrific cruelty toward the
animals who are at their mercy.
In any discussion about animal abuse and slaughterhouses, it is very
important to include the dairy industry because, once their milk
production wanes, cows are expendable and sent to the slaughterhouse. Of
course, since the milk production of cows depends on the birth of
calves, the vicious cycle continues as their male babies, after cruel
confinement, are killed for veal.
“Due to oppressive conditions…turnover rates in many plants soar.
After quitting, thousands of legal and illegal workers recruited from
pockets of unemployment end up looking to slaughterhouse communities
to pick up the social costs associated with their joblessness and
resulting crime. Disabled workers…find it impossible to ever work
again. Drained of their usefulness to the slaughterhouse, they’re cast
aside, reminders of a system that places nearly as little value on
human life as it does on animal life.”
– From: Slaughterhouse – The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect,
and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail
A. Eisnitz.
Also visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-slaughterhouse.html
Also be sure to visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/index.html
