Cons Of The Meat Industry

Discoveries are everywhere in everyday life and they can impact the way we see the world, either positively or negatively. Because of this, it can be noted that “Not all discoveries are welcomed”. We can explore this philosophy through the examination of various techniques found within both Robert Gray’s ‘Journey, North Coast’ and ‘The Meatworks’, as well Leo Matsuda’s animated short film, ‘Inner workings’. These three texts, although all having visual processes of discovery, offer juxtaposing perspectives on the acceptance (or lack of) towards discoveries.

The contents inside the paradigmatic meatpacking factory is so inhumane and barbaric that no designation, appellation, or locution juxtaposes with the conditions and experiences that meatpackers are put through on a daily basis. Foremost the first safety hazard on the long list of employment safety deficiencies is worker proximity. Workers wielding butcher knives and hooks are literally feet from each other meanwhile 450 pound bloody pieces of beef are also being flung directly at meatpackers via trolley swing. The kill floor as its name insinuates is where hundred of steers sadly go belly up in the most gruesome way. About every ten second a worker transfixes a cow in a main channel of blood to give them a “merciful” death. There is also a

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a jungle as, “a harsh or dangerous place or situation in which people struggle for survival or success. ” The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is a dramatized portrait of an immigrant family enduring the turmoil that existed within the jungle of the early 20th Century. The family has difficulty staying afloat due to high living expenses, low wages, cyclical employment, and unending setbacks. These conditions within ‘the jungle’ break their family apart, strip away their values, and in some cases even take their lives. The Jungle provides an impactful depiction of the appalling conditions of the labor forces, abysmal living conditions, and plight of the working class during the early 20th Century.

The working environment in slaughterhouses and meat packing factories were atrocious. According to Sinclair in The Jungle, the workers in these factories were to pickle or smoke spoiled meat and cut off the contaminated parts. The meat that had been dropped was picked up and put back in the grinder as if nothing happened at all. If a whole ham is spoiled to the point it smelled the workers were to chop it up with other meats and pour chemicals to smother the pungent odor oozing off the meat. Rats overrun storage rooms where the meat is kept in piles under insufficient, leaky ceilings. The factories have workers mop up the brine, that is used to preserve the meat, towards a hole in the floor so it can be recycled and used again. After a few days, workers were to shovel the unused rotten scraps into the truck that hauled off the meat.

The risks associated with working in meatpacking factories have plagued the industry for a long time. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle exposed the repulsive dangers and perils

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle was published in 1906 and was an eye-opening revelation of the workingman’s experience in the Chicago stockyards. Sinclair describes the horrible work conditions the workers endured and the unsanitary ways in which the meat was made and processed. Sinclair uses an immigrant family from Lithuania to help bring attention to the hardships and unfairness that the working class had to go through.

After reading both articles, I have to say I am compelled to believe Joel Salatin’s response to “Myth of Sustainable Meats” written by James E. McWilliams. I think Joel Salatin uses many more pieces of evidence in his argument, and also does a very good job using facts to prove McWilliam’s statements are false. It seems that every statement he makes is backed up by a fact. It also seems that Salatin is extremely offended by McWilliam’s claims and even writes “apparently if you lie often and big enough, some people will believe it” (Salatin). I think Salatin is offended because McWilliams makes it seem that every company does everything wrong, when some companies are actually doing things the right way. McWilliams generalizes too often

Humans are the equivalent to animals in the meat industry for the purpose of profit. Jurgis tours the slaughterhouse. He describes the detachment in the work environment with the slaughtering and packaging of hogs. The hogs are not treated kindly or even thought of as animals just as sales. “There was a long line of hogs," being simultaneously "swung up and then another, and another squealing] and lifeblood ebbing away together.” (Sinclair 39) There is an orderly way to set up the slaughterhouse to distract the poor immigrants of the American lifestyle. The worker wants to give more to their family and add to their financial status even if it means being away from their home country. Businesses take advantage of workers valuing their work ethic more than the idea of being miserable at work so it is done continuously with no remorse. This social construct was built and implied because no one could protest against a life that helps them survive in the America 's capitalism. People and animals are

The use of language is an adequate manner of showing the reader the author’s point of view on a situation or topic without declaring it outright. Upton Sinclair and Eric Schlosser use effective diction to give the reader a sense of the horror that goes on within the industries and their emotions while being witness to it. When reading closely, it is obvious that the word choices of the authors are pushing the reader to also view these scenarios as horrific and inhumane. In Fast Food Nation, Schlosser writes, “On the kill floor, what I see no longer unfolds in a logical manner. It’s one strange image after another. A worker with a power saw slices cattle into halves as though they were two-by-fours, and then the halves swing by me into the cooler.” There are many keywords in this excerpt that paint an awful scene in the reader’s mind. Firstly and perhaps most importantly, using the term “kill floor” to describe the setting automatically gives a negative connotation. “Kill floor” is extremely cacophonous, and Schlosser purposefully did not choose to find a euphemistic counterpart to use instead; the reader can easily imagine what goes on at a “kill floor”. He also writes that the events unfolded in an “illogical manner”. This denotes that there is chaos and disorder within the factory, thus forcing the reader to conclude that the events occurring are doing so with no supervision and are possibly hazardous. Finally, Schlosser describes the employee’s work as slicing with a power saw and cutting the cattle in halves, which then swing by the cooler. Reading of something being sliced with a power saw gives the reader an instant image of a reckless cut through something with a mighty tool, which shows the

​In conducting a rhetorical analysis of the two articles, "Joel Salatin: How to Eat Animals and Respect Them, Too" by Madeline Ostrander and "Humane Meat? No Such Thing" by Sunaura Taylor, both articles stand in stark contrast in terms of the viewpoints of meat that they present. In order to gain a better understanding of these viewpoints, it's important to understand the persuasive techniques that both authors use in the article for the reader. More specifically, the ethos, pathos, and logos that they employ, as well the way in which the evidence and support is presented will further elucidate upon the arguments that appear in both articles.

RITTMAN — Residents who want to raise chickens for the eggs are on their way to being able to do so with just a minor setback: Setbacks.

Slaughterhouse is a big factory were almost all of the workers are poor, undocumented, illegal, illiterate, impoverished, and untrained and the work is still performed by hand many people get injured doing this job, workers get low wages and it is the most dangerous job in the U.S. However, Sweatshops are a dream for poor people that work in the dumpster where it’s unsafe environment sweatshops are

Meat has been in our diet since the start of mankind. We eat meat everyday mindlessly. It is hard to avoid meat since it is everywhere we go. Meat is the majority of today’s food. There are very few vegetarian or vegan options in the food industry. Although, it has been growing more and more popular since it has become a lifestyle. The reason is to be the horrifying truth of today’s meat industry. For those who cannot bear the truth, pick up the vegetarian or vegan lifestyle.

The meat industry today is not what it was nearly a century ago. While improvements are thought to have been made, an ever changing society has brought upon new problems that have been piled on to the previously existing ones. While these problems are not like those found in The Jungle, they do parallel how by exposing what is going on in the meat industry; new regulations would be the answer to the noted problems. The increased demand for meat has made it a rushed mutated production instead of a means to raise livestock for consumers. Taking into consideration the demand for cheap meat that will be used for in quick and high demanded products such as frozen and fast food, this demand of meat has greatly skyrocketed. Animals whose sole

Global meat production rose to a new peak of 308.5 million tons in 2013, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a more than fourfold increase over the last five decades. Even more startlingly, meat production has grown 25-fold since 1800 (Horrigan, Lawerence &Walker, 2002). Globally, agriculture utilizes nearly 70 per cent of the world 's available freshwater. One-third of that percentage is used to grow grains to feed to livestock (ECOS, 2014). While the global meat industry provides food and a livelihood for billions of people, it also has significant environmental and health consequences for the planet. Over half of the water used in meat production