Reddit reviews Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

Slaughterhouse is a book built mostly from interviews with slaughterhouse workers. It is honestly unbelievable, but it puts into perspective that a lot of these people know how terrible it is to do what they do, but they have so little choice... they have to just shut it out.

Not to mention slaughterhouse workers are treated terribly, considered about as expendable as the animals.

Here are some quotes from former slaughterhouse workers: https://www.instagram.com/p/B0garE1AsRj/

From the book, Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry by Gail A. Eisnitz

1. We shouldn't take seriously a politics that ignores our relationship with 99% of life of Earth. Important discussions have to take place about an anarchist view of various approaches to animal and Earth liberation. We can't treat these questions as irrelevant.
   
   
2. Animals are certainly exploited for profit by capitalists, in a way analogous to chattel slavery. You could say they are a special exploited class. Secondly, the workers on the lowest rung of the animal industries have some of the worst jobs imaginable. The book Slaughterhouse described the crippling affect of slaughterhouses on both workers and animals.

You're very naive.

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^^^^^^ start with this book and do some more research on your own

Links to the books for the lazy ones:
https://www.amazon.com/Eating-Animals-Jonathan-Safran-Foer/dp/0316069884

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1591024501/ref=mp_s_a_1_sc_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1495878180&sr=8-2-spell&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=slaughterhoue+book

There are some interesting studies otherwise, including a study that found that a correlation between working in a slaughterhouse and increased likelihood of committing violent crime: http://www.animalstudies.msu.edu/Slaughterhouses_and_Increased_Crime_Rates.pdf

And here's a good book with tons of anecdotes and theories on the effect slaughtering animals has on workers (in addition to effects of other conditions in slaughterhouses) http://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Shocking-Inhumane-Treatment-Industry/dp/1591024501

It's a little outdated but I have to recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Shocking-Inhumane-Treatment-Industry/dp/1591024501

I think that's just fine if you decide you can't watch that kind of misery and have already opted out of it. It is most critical for those who do not understand how truly horrific it is and still consume animal products to understand.

That said, personally I think it's a good idea for vegans to at least understand what we're working to end. Not everyone has to watch them and certainly not frequently, but I think an understanding of the brutality is a powerful motivator.

Perhaps reading Gail Eisnitz's Slaughterhouse could be an option for understanding the terror. It is certainty upsetting at points but not in the visceral and constant way of docs like Earthlings.

https://www.amazon.com/CAFO-Tragedy-Industrial-Animal-Factories/dp/1601090587/

https://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Shocking-Inhumane-Treatment-Industry/dp/1591024501/

https://www.amazon.com/Meat-Market-Animals-Ethics-Money/dp/0975867911

https://www.amazon.com/Every-Twelve-Seconds-Industrialized-Slaughter-ebook/dp/B005ZC7I62/

https://www.amazon.com/Comfortably-Unaware-Choose-Killing-Planet/dp/0825306868/

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/1591024501

I read this book, you should check it out!

Also, I don't plan on eating a licence plate... That's kind of like comparing a fry cook to a head chef don't you think?

well, it's hard for me to choose. i loved both alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. and i also loved emilie autumns Asylumn for wayward Victorian girls(which i need back on my shelf because it got lost in the last move. and it was autographed by her T_T)
there are two books i want in my life right now, and it's either John Barrowmans memoir "anything goes" or "Slaughterhouse" which has had me hooked from a sample i read. i think i'll choose slaughterhouse. i've been on a hunt for that book for a year now.
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

Want some help? Read this book: Slaughterhouse.

I read the first section on pigs. I stopped eating pork and also stopped reading the rest of it for fear that I would stop eating beef. However, I'm a big wuss and an essentially burying my head in the sand. I will finish the book, dammit, and join you in your vegetarianism. Do plants feel pain?

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Books called slaughterhouse and its more from the human safety point of view not the animal point of view. But could of fooled me.

> I doubt this video is representative of modern slaughterhouses - the woman in the video even says it's from 1979, which is 35 years ago.

The abandoned slaughterhouse they walked around was from 1979; I think the video was more recent, although they weren't super clear on that point. But if you want a more recent look into slaughterhouse conditions, you could read this book, which was based on an investigation done in the late 90s-early 2000s, or Google around for more recent videos.

so our slaughterhouses and the people who work there-
https://www.amazon.com/Slaughterhouse-Shocking-Inhumane-Treatment-Industry/dp/1591024501

Ok, while you can be vegan without fruit, I'll defer to you/your doctor on your specific needs if you have rare allergies. I'd still encourage you to limit animal products to the extent you can.

However in general:

> Regardless, humans are clearly meant to consume meat, I would argue it's just as cruel and inhumane to remove meat from a human diet.

Well, I don't know if you believe a higher power pre-ordained meat, but outside of that I can't quite follow what this statement means. Perhaps you mean that humans can eat meat? Or that humans historically did? I'd refer you to the naturalistic fallacy on those points.

What is relevant today, every main stream health organization which has made a statement has been strongly supportive of veganism asx an option. For example:

> It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.

What's more, modern vegans eat like royalty. Check out /r/vegan and /r/veganrecipes. It's pretty far out to call a modern vegan diet deprived or cruel. No, what we do to the animals is cruel.

> While one could argue the humanity of slaughter, if an animal is raised and lives in a humane matter, a quick and painless death is much more "humane" than most natural deaths.

But this is a false option. What death would you like to die today? Oh, you have things you value and want to live for? So do the animals. We breed animals to kill them as adolescents.

A thought experiment: what if I LOVE puppies. So I get dogs and breed them so I can have puppies to love and pamper. But maybe I don't love adult dogs, so at about 9 months I kill the adolescent puppies humanely to make way for more puppies. Perhaps I eat the puppies. Is this kindness? I don't think so. Sure, euthanizing an older dog who was facing an unpleasant natural death can be a kindness. But those puppies have their whole lives to live and love and play - killing them gently is taking all that away from them.

I'd prefer a long and varied full life, even if it comes with a messy natural death to a short life that ends abruptly in my teens. Wouldn't you? And it's not like the short lives we are giving animals are blessed in any way at all. Look critically at the lives of the hens the NYTs is calling 'lucky. They don't actually look like lucky hens do they?

> This also still doesn't change the fact that humans are exploited to make these products, and to me, is no better.


Yes! I'm glad you brought up human exploitation, that's a serious issue. There are 2 industries I've seen straight up human trafficking in the US happen in. First is sex work*, the second is the meat industry. Here is a recent NYTs article. This is an extreme example, but bad things happen to people when your industry is so bad it's hidden from public view.

We need to do more to help poor farm workers who pick the vegetables as well, but believe me they are better off than the slaughterhouse workers. There is a book I mean to read if I can stomach it detailing accounts from people who work in the slaughter house - it's called Slaughterhouse.

You can't make this shit up. It gets worse the closer you look. Bad for animals, bad for humans. Bad.

Have you ever read Slaughterhouse by Gail Eisnitz? She interviews employees.