Summary Of The Meatworks By Robert Gray

The film begins with an introduction scenery of acres and large amounts of crops (corn and wheat), along with cattle and other forms of animals used in the production of the meat industry. During the agricultural featured scene, Mr. Schlosser elucidated how food preferences and the way we eat is evolving at a rapid speed, while others still perceive the food industry as an agrarian corporation. The film then makes its emotional appeal towards the audience by providing images and videos of chickens in multiple repulsive situations. The chickens were thrown onto conveyor belts by primarily African American workers, which now accounts for a fine percentage of employees in the food industry. Schlosser elaborates on the unseen dilemma of animal and worker abuse in these corporations. He then exemplifies his realization of how the abuse is enacted in numerous ways, one of which is implementing restrictions as to what workers are allowed to do and say. They use these restrictions as a way of controlling their workers and providers in such industries, because the workers/providers can’t risk losing the income they receive from these multi-billionaire companies. The above said scenes justifies how Schlosser uses emotional appeals to the viewers in order to enhance the initial

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 process of discovery refers to the perception created upon experiencing the unfamiliar and redefining what is familiar. Discovery can be achieved through unexpected means or deliberate expeditionary, whether it be tangible or a fragment of our thoughts/imagination/emotions. Poems ‘The Tiger’ and ‘Young Girl At A Window’ by Rosemary Dobson and poem ‘Invictus’ by William Ernest Henley thoroughly explore this concept via their ideology of human nature and its effect on discovery.

Robert Gray is an Australian poet whose work is closely linked with nature. He grew up in the post ww11 era, and lives on the north coast. The poems ‘The Meatworks’, and ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’, express how he feels about life, his experiences and his beliefs. His poetry has such an enduring nature because it can be understood in so many different contexts, and includes universal themes which remain relevant to societies past, present and future.

Discoveries can be confronting and provocative. From this, we can be exposed to disturbing images that make us question our societal values. In ‘The Meatworks’, Gray quickly establishes this unwelcoming nature of discoveries through the explicitly derogatory description of the abattoirs processes and it’s accompanied workers. This is evident through the use of provocative imagery in “arm-thick corkscrews, grinding around inside it, meat or not”. From this depiction, we are exposed to the merciless treatment of the of the +pigs as they lose their identity. The fact that the machine never stops grinding whether there is meat in there or not denotes such a sense of insensitivity towards the process, causing the reader to feel distressed and guilty of the slaughter.  A degree of insensitivity is also presented to the reader through the recurring motif of blood, an idea that is central to the poem. “Stench of blood…chomping

set of terrifying and inhumanity acts take place on immigrants in the meat packing industry where many of them even lost their lives. They encounter extremes in freeze weather, heat exhaustion, overwhelming, and infectious disease. Upon Sinclair’s novel, where he depicts the scenery in the meat industries, "They don't waste anything. They use everything about the hog except the squeal." Yet most of them are grateful for getting a job because otherwise they would be in debt, starve and die. The author purpose of this book is to raise public awareness, soon after, The Food and Drug Act immediately takes a step on investigating animals slaughtering and working environment. Soon afterward, workers no longer work closed to the diseased animals and

It is revealed in the emotional, physical and spiritual discoveries that the confronting reflection of our self generates an acceptance of the human experiences. The deliberate discovery of place allow readers to explore the fresh and intensely meaningful ways of the transformation of our perception of the natural environment. The poems ‘Late Ferry’ and ‘The Meatworks’ by Robert Gray are the two of many in his anthology and ‘Beach Burial’ by Kenneth Slessor use discoveries to reveal their meanings. The poems contain a range of techniques and feature to convey the ideas of the poets. Gray allow readers to explore confronting discoveries to generate acceptance of the human experiences.

Galileo Galilei once said, ‘All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.’ Discovery has the concipient potential to change our perception about the world through unlearnt experiences and epiphanies. This process can be often triggered by unexpected discoveries which explores ideas such as transformation, challenging beliefs and realisation about the world. This help individuals to gain deepened knowledge about societal issues and their worlds. Both text composed by Robert Grey, ‘Meatworks’ and ‘Flames and Dangling Wires’ explore the key elements of discovery through concepts of reassessment. This is also reflected in Justin Giddings & Ryan Patrick Welsh’s short film, ‘This is normal’. These

One Man’s Meat, written by E.B. White, is a collection of essays he wrote in the late 1930s and early 1940s. White wrote about a broad selection of topics ranging from his farming lifestyle to world politics. It amazed me that White could blend so many topics together and yet, make sense of it all..

A discovery can lead to a change in perspective on life, with a better understanding of the self, which can form from an individual’s experience. These ideas are exemplified through a range of language techniques, in Robert Frosts poems, ‘Tuft of Flowers’ and ‘After Apple Picking’. Both create moralistic experiences through challenging responders to acknowledge unplanned discoveries of the human condition. Ray Bradbury’s short story, ‘The Lake, creates a vivid picture of how childhood can often be hard and misunderstood. Discoveries have the ability to be intensely meaningful and transformative of one’s perspective.

Hung upside down by their feet, their throats are slit to drain the blood. This is an image that appears in most every slaughterhouse across the globe. John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel, Let the Right One In, similarly portrays these scenes of slaughter with one difference: the victims of slaughter are humans not animals. Set in the suburbs of Stockholm, Lindqvist’s novel tells of a young and severely bullied boy, Oskar, who befriends a centuries old child vampire named Eli. Because of her childlike body, Eli requires her older male companion, Håkan, to procure blood for her. As he hangs his victims by their feet and slits their throats to collect the blood, Håkan’s process of obtaining human blood is clearly evocative of contemporary Western practices of animal slaughter. However, the difference between Håkan’s slaughter of humans and contemporary animal slaughter is not merely the victims’ species but is, more importantly, the space in which these acts occur. Despite meat consumption’s widespread acceptance, meat production by means of slaughter is still visually disturbing and thus, in order to be socially tolerable, must not be seen. Indeed, since the 19th century, the slaughterhouse has been spatially located at the edges of urban space in order to render its violent actions socially invisible. What happens, then, when the slaughter occurs within the urban space as Håkan’s acts of slaughter do? By comparing animal slaughter to the novel’s scenes of human slaughter in terms

Striding alongside the muddy riverbank, the aubade beginning to sound in the air as dawn arose, the clay pigmented canine remained focused on the task he had set for himself; breakfast. Splotchy shade was cast down upon his pelt as the light began to shine in between the leaves of bushes and small trees, the light making his red hued fur look almost orange. The male's nose and nostrils twitched, ears rotating from side to side, forward and back, his senses looking for anything that would captivate his desire for meat.

People have a natural instinct to discover new places, to gain knowledge and ideas. Discoveries can lead to new worlds, values, and perspectives. These aspects of discovery are thoroughly explored in the text Rainbow’s End by Jane Harrison, Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry and the door visual text. Moreover, discoveries can offer new understandings and perceptions about self and others.

After the visit to "Wayne Bradley's" farm, Peter Singer and Jim Mason share some very important information on the experience with farming. Singer and Mason together examine negative impacts that individual Americans food choices have upon farmers, they believe should be the basis of dietary basics. The negative effects of much agriculture on animals, human health, and our environment as they have little faith that the American government will actually take the initiative to force the food industry to change without a lot of pressure, with this being said consumers, such as Mr. Bradley, force for reformed market behavior through demand for the food product, animals. Singer and Mason spend considerable time at Mr. Bradley farm to expose the

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.