The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, is about the filthiness of MeatPacking Industries. "In the book, family members who work in the slaughterhouses see the unbelievable filth in the factories where the meat is processed and the sickening secrets of meatpacking.Diseased cattle and hogs are processed for consumption, as well as pregnant cows and their fetuses. The sausages are made of a random mixture of animal parts, as well as the dirt, rat carcasses and poison scooped up off the floor. The corruption within the plants runs thick, with bosses demanding "gifts" of money from their workers, and grafting off those in the hierarchy of management.
-Glory Cruz
-Glory Cruz
It is crazy how some people saw how they slaughtered the animals in the old days. These days, they don't even let us see what is going on in there. When we read Omnivore's Dilemma, Mr. Pollan was not allowed to go any further into the the floor where the animals were killed. I believe if society today saw what happened in the slaughterhouses, they would definitely be scarred for life and maybe become vegetarians. If they they eventually become vegetarians, meat companies would be losing money and business.
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