Dangers Of Slaughterhouse Abuse

Being confronted with the reality of a desensitised society advances one’s self to a heightened awareness of that reality. ‘The Meatworks’ exhibits this idea through the disregard for non-human life as seen when directly exploiting pigs to earn a living. The enjambment Gray employs within “But I settled for one of the lowest paid jobs, making mince, the furthest end from those bellowing, sloppy yards. Outside the pigs fear”. Along with first person and high modality expresses how both physically and mentally uncomfortable the persona is with being more involved with the slaughter, revealing his standpoint as a humanist, empathising with the pigs. Gray delves further into this empathy, directly describing the result of desensitisation in “arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not… using a

Schlosser describes the environment of the meat packing plants serving fast food companies in a startling straightforward narrative of his visit through a meat packing plant. He describes a brutal, and sometimes unsanitary environment. The rights of animals are a very broad and complex subject, but Schlosser touches on this as he describes the slaughterhouse floor. He describes animals in various states of disembowelment. Sometimes the animals were dead or stunned; sometimes they were thrashing about wildly in the last throws of death. The slaughter room floor was described as being covered with blood and feces. Employees worked at a furious pace to meet the day's quota. What bothered me most was the fact that this meat is not only prepared for fast food companies but also contracted out to serve our children's schools.

The conditions for animals in modern slaughterhouses are unsanitary and violent. The lack of rules and regulations cause animals to be treated poorly because this industry is focused on mass production and profit rather than finding a more humane alternative to run the meat packing business. The most effective method to stop this cruelty is to learn about where meat comes from, start supporting the organic and family farms which will ultimately lead to the reducing the amount of animals that have to suffer.

Profit margins for slaughterhouses are very low. The faster the workers perform, the more profit comes in. If a person gets injured, the production line slows down with huge losses of profit. “The annual bonuses of plant foreman and supervisors are often based in part of the injury rate of their workers. Instead of creating a safer workplace, bonus schemes encourage

The writing portray the harsh conditions and explored lives of immigrants in the United States and meat packing industry conditions. America's meat production has always been a large industry met with demands from those both inside and outside of the United States, which is why it is important to ensure its' stability and success. By the late 1800s meat was in high demand, so companies were producing at a faster rate than they were comfortable with and discrepancies were growing with it. Meatpacking factories used the most recent immigrants and migrants as strikebreakers in labor actions taken by other workers, also usually immigrants or early descendants. Workers working in the factory would easily be infected by diseases carried out by the dead meat and animals. In addition, risks of injuries were resulted by machinery work and rat foods mixed into the machine. Rats and insects were everywhere and they would often being mixed up into raw meats. However, most readers were more concerned with the exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking

Before the passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act, meat processing plants and slaughterhouses were very unsanitary and dangerous places to work. There had been previous meat inspection acts, such as the Meat Inspection Act of 1890, but they were largely ineffective as they did not successfully regulate the industry (Rouse). Therefore, even if a person

Factory Farming is an increasing industry in the United States. These large farms, which evidently appear to be more like slaughterhouses than the typical farms a person can imagine are located throughout the United States. These factory farms contain animals ranging from chickens, sheep, goats, cows, turkeys, and pigs, they also contain dairy products. The conditions for the animals and the employees of these factory farms are inhumane and vile. Life behind the walls of the factory farm is both unsanitary for the animals and the employees. Employees are forced to endure long hours and poor treatment. Animals in these conditions withstand living in cages and are forced to live in uninhabitable ways.

Broadway, Michael; Cut to the Bone; How changes in meatpacking have created the most vulnerable worker in Alberta; Published in Vol 15, No 4, May 2012, pgs 36-41. Retrieved from

In “The Way of All Flesh” the author Ted Conover describes his experience working as an undercover USDA inspector in a meat packing plant. He shows how extremely grotesque the industry really is by providing numerous examples on the health and treatment of animals, the conditions of the meat, and the health and treatment of the employees. Conover shows the reader what it is really like in the slaughterhouse by using descriptive language. Throughout the article Conover brings up the treatment and the conditions the animals are put in. Conover supports his arguments by appealing to the reader’s emotions, by making the readers feel sympathetic for both the animals and workers.

This manner that runs the lives of slaughterhouse workers is completely unethical. In any business, stopping an employee from receiving due compensation for injuries is unfair and unethical. It seems like that in any other business, if a worker is injured, and does not receive fair compensation, they have the ability and drive to enforce the law; but in the case of the slaughterhouse workers, that are often illiterate, this rarely happens.

Had the Slaughterhouse Cases been solely about providing a solution to the various problems that precipitated when slaughtering livestock near an overcrowded population, it is doubtful that they would have ever been regarded as significant. However, the predominant reasons why the Slaughterhouse Cases are notable is that this was the first time that the Supreme Court deliberated on the meaning of a newly enacted amendment, and even more importantly, their ultimate decision has been deemed as one of the worst mistakes to have ever been made. In terms of the latter, the final ruling of the Slaughterhouse Cases has been subjected to enormous amounts of criticism by both historians and legal scholars on the grounds that Miller interpreted the Privileges or Immunities Clause down to practically

These kids work with extremely dangerous machinery that can easily kill them. Every year, the hospital treats over 1,000 people for factory injuries. In many incidences, children's hands and arms get caught in the machinery. They then get skinned all the way down to the bone. Many children lost fingers. Children have been caught in the machinery and sliced to no recognition of their bodies. One girls dress got caught in the machinery and was pulled into it. You could hear the breaking of her skull, and see the bloody mess. The physical labor destroy the children's joints making it impossible for them to walk. The children's bones become so fragile from all of the stress their joints are under. If that wasn’t enough, their boss’s punish their workers with physical violence, and a cut of

As you start reading this essay create a new tab and follow this link http://www.adaptt.org/killcounter.html, return to this tab after finishing the essay. Most people do not know what actually occurs in a slaughterhouse because it is

To this company an arm is only worth thirty seven thousand dollars, and a finger is only worth two thousand. In America there are a number of organizations that are put together to stop animal cruelty, to protect not only domestic animals but also protect the ones that live in the wild from poachers or hunters. But how many organizations are there for stopping human cruelty? This may be a bizarre concept to try and understand because it doesn’t seem possible for there to be cruelty to human beings. Yes, there is the commonly heard term of abuse, but cruelty and abuse are two different things. Abuse is defined as being an action where someone is being treating with violence, usually repeatedly, while cruelty is a behavior that causes physical or mental pain to another being. Slaughterhouses are a prime example of human cruelty because slaughterhouse employees are exposed to harsh weather conditions, are around extremely dangerous machinery and work in an unsanitary environment. In a traditional job setting employee cruelty could be classified as gender issues, sexual orientation and racial diversity. However, less traditional jobs such as slaughterhouses their employees are affected by much more radical ways of cruelty, these radical forms of cruelty can include physical, psychological torment and low wages.

If you think being a farmer is bad, try working in a slaughter house. “Knocker, Sticker, Shackler, Rumper, First Legger, Knuckle Dropper,” these are just a few of the positions the workers at a slaughterhouse get assigned to. Simply reading the names of the above job positions induces a sense of nausea and hints at the inherent brutality that these positions demand (Schlosser, 172). Because the weight and size of cows are unpredictable, most of the labor in the slaughterhouse must be done by hand. On the kill floor of a slaughterhouse,