He describes the irony between slaughterhouse workers’ anger over the killing of a cow in the street while their own work causes the death of 2,500 cattle per day.
He discusses current and proposed legislation making it a crime to enter a slaughterhouse and record what happens inside without first gaining consent from the owner. The first chapter of his book Every Twelve Seconds serves as an overview of the industry and his impressions of the industry. He did this for his dissertation though I suspect he learned much more than he had anticipated in his time at the meat packing plant. While a Ph.D student at Yale University, Timothy Pachirat posed as an out-of-work laborer looking for a job in a slaughterhouse in Omaha. (For example, I didn’t have internet at my house for a couple of days thought that’s a story for another time.) Part of that has to do with the emotional effect this reading had on me but other factors contributed as well. It has taken me a long time to get my wits together to write this post.
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