Animals suffer for meat production – and abattoir workers do too
Animals suffer for meat production – and abattoir workers do too
The hazards are both psychological and physical.
The entire industry is built on suffering. It's bad for the animals, the workers, the climate, your health.
I get a lot of downvotes for being vegan (and I'm usually being a prick about it, so - fair) but surely even the meat eaters must recognise that animal ag needs to scale way down to be at all sustainable. At the very least we need to stop subsidising it so it's cheaper than alternatives.
You want to stop subsidizing one of the best ways to provide food to people?....yeah that'll work out really well.
You know why governments subsidize farms? So we all don't starve.
Animal agriculture has gone on way too long. It needs to end
It's what pushed me to give up eating flesh. I couldn't abide the suffering of the workers forced to kill animals for me.
Correlation isn't causation. It's just as likely that jobs like this attract people already numbed to violence.
The article also talks about physical injuries as well. The injury rate is uniquely high for meatpacking
Together, poultry slaughtering and processing companies reported more severe injuries to the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) than many industries that are popularly recognized as hazardous, such as sawmills, industrial building construction, and oil and gas well drilling