Jonathan Foer's Eating Animals illustrates the side of our food industry that we seldom see. He highlights the low points of our food system in a way that is to the point and in your face. while focuseing on the darker aspects of food in america such as hormone enhanced livestock, and the effects of the waste produced by facotry farms, he also invetigates how a "humane" slughterhouse operates.
In the chapter titled "Slices of Paradise/Pieces of S***" Foer visits a humane pork slaughter house to see how they do business. Now Paradise Locker Meats is much more animal friendly than traditional anumal processing plants, however they still admit to over crowding and to using means of knocking out their pigs that work only 80% of the time. A worker states that,"We get em on the first shock I'd think about 80% of the time." (155)
This same slaughter house also said that in a pin designed to hold 50 hogs, "we get 70 or 80 at a time."(161) Foers investigation made me think about how all animals are treated not just ones who's destiny is to feed a family of four. Our Humane facilities are a better option but hey are few and far between, and for those who are radically pro-animal rights do not offer a perfect solution to today's slaughter house issues.
-Robbie
If that's what we would call humane, I'm scared to know what's considered inhumane. It's hard to have all of these companies regulated with slaughtering because they all use the same methods and they don't rat each other out.
ReplyDeleteSarah Johnson
Ya seriously
ReplyDeletethis stuff freaked me out too.
as much as i love eating meat, i absolutely hate animals in pain
-Zach