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 <P>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. <P> 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.
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slaughterhouse
Best over-all book for making a believer out of you for going VEGAN. I can never see animal flesh the same ever again and I am 70 years old. wish I had reasearched about animal treatment earlier in my life. I put in on a level with finding Jehovah God for making changes in my life. I am telling every one I can about this book and the treatment of animals at slaughter houses. Some believe the false advertising of humane treatment of free-range chickens and other animals ,like they might live in some kind of paradise place ,and then they just somehow get slaughtered and put on our plates how wrong they have been lead. Eat Tofu! is does not scream when you cut it and it can taste like what ever you want it to . Just take the time to learn, go on You-Tube and watch the people cook Tofu. Save at leat 50 animals a year from a cruel death.

Horror, behind the scenes
By dint of its title, 'Slaughterhouse' promises to be a brutal read. Most reviewers here agree that the book is indeed shocking, with more instances of greed and inhumane treatment than the subtitle can possibly suggest. It's also a painstakingly researched document that exposes just how little respect life is accorded by Big Agriculture and how the USDA, far from being an objective, outside observer, is obscenely committed to Big Ag's intensions and its goals. Even if you're not particularly concerned about the suffering of animals, the public health interest of this story is itself enough to recommend that you get a copy of this book ASAP, for your own safety.

There are other, less obvious reasons to read `Slaughterhouse', too. Few readers will probably list this title as `pleasure-reading', but Gail Eisnitz is a keen storyteller. During her research, she meets characters who are colorful enough that an aspiring novelist might be tempted to lift them directly into a travelogue of the American Grotesque. The book is well-organized and has narrative panache; Eisnitz makes Woodward and Bernstein look like quiet schoolboys.

As someone who grew up in near some of the places visited in this book (in a rural community approximately equidistant to Sioux City, IA, and Sioux Falls, SD), it was a rude awakening to find out what strange horror lays behind many hamburgers--and pork chops, and chicken breasts. Livestock production was such an accepted part of everyday life that I never had reason to question its motives or intentions. `Slaughterhouse' showed me for the first time what goes on behind the cleanly groomed industrial facades. People owe it to themselves to get the relevant facts of what goes into their food, which is just what this harrowing volume provides.

Sickening and important
Slaughterhouse is a short, yet gripping read about animal cruelty that is perpetrated by US meat processors. The abuses wrought on literally billions of animals yearly (the book was written in '97) are explained in graphic detail. This is not an easy book to read. Several times I felt nauseated.

Gail Eisnitz has constructed a fascinating and tragic account of the corporate greed, government corruption, employee exploitation and hellish animal abuse that characterize the US meat industry. If you're ambivalent about factory farming in the US or how your food is processed, and want to remain that way, you should not read this book.

Eisnitz deserves much credit for shedding light on these atrocities, however depressing and grotesque that revelation is. The sad and sobering reality is that in the past 100 years or more the character and soul of the meat industry has not appreciably changed. In the end, we, the consumers, are to blame - for not asking questions, for not demanding answers, for not demanding accoutability, and for supporting this evil at nearly every meal for generations.

everyone should read
The information in this book could change the world, if anyone cares. Once you know about something it's hard to forget it. Its time people wake up and learn whats going on around them.

revealing!
this book is informational, factual, and revealing and should be required reading for all high school students.

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