Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U. S. Meat Industry
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With a New Afterword by the Author Slaughterhouse is the first book of its kind to explore the impact that unprecedented changes in the meatpacking industry over the last twenty-five years-particularly industry consolidation, increased line speeds, and deregulation-have had on workers, animals, and consumers. It is also the first time ever that workers have spoken publicly about what's really taking place behind the closed doors of America's slaughterhouses. In this new paperback edition, author Gail A. Eisnitz brings the story up to date since the book's original publication. She describes the ongoing efforts by the Humane Farming Association to improve conditions in the meatpacking industry, media exposés that have prompted reforms resulting in multimillion dollar appropriations by Congress to try to enforce federal inspection laws, and a favorable decision by the Supreme Court to block construction of what was slated to be one of the largest hog factory farms in the country. Nonetheless, Eisnitz makes it clear that abuses continue and much work still needs to be done.
Contents Acknowledgments............................................................9Part One: Opening the Slaughterhouse Door Prologue...................................................................131. One Man's Cry for Help..................................................172. Will We Get Out of Here Alive?..........................................273. The Darkest Place in the Universe.......................................354. "Mommy, Am I Going to Die?".............................................495. The Fall Guy............................................................57Part Two: The Stickers' Confessions 6. The Man with the Scar...................................................617. Pangs of Conscience.....................................................798. Blood-Red and Frozen....................................................97Part Three: The "Slaughterhouse Eight" 9. Beyond the Law..........................................................10910. Slunks, Haulers, and "Too-Dead" Cows...................................11711. A Trip to the State Pen................................................13512. A Sixty-Minute Investigation...........................................147Part Four: USDA Deregulates: Full Line Speeds Ahead 13. A Pandora's Box of Pathogens...........................................15514. The USDA's Sacred Cow..................................................17915. This Little Piggy Dragged to Market....................................18716. Veterinary Turncoats...................................................20317. TheThumper............................................................21318. The Guardian Angel.....................................................22119. The Secretary of Agriculture Erects a Smokescreen......................225Part Five: Friends in High Places 20. Almost Dying for a Cause...............................................23321. In Bed with a Bird.....................................................23922. The Lesson.............................................................251Part Six: A Debased Side of Human Nature 23. America's Premier Hog Kill.............................................25924. An Army of Walking Wounded.............................................26925. Piercing the Veil of Secrecy...........................................27726. HACCP: A Trojan Horse for Deregulation.................................28327. Education and Empowerment..............................................289Afterword: Violations at America's Largest Meat Packer.....................295Glossary...................................................................313Index......................................................................321
