In the belly of the beast
Sarah lets call her that for this story, though its neither the name her parents gave her nor the one she currently uses undercover is a tall, fair woman in her midtwenties whos pretty in a stock, anonymous way, as if shed purposely scrubbed her face and frame of distinguishing characteristics. Like anyone whos spent much time working farms, shes functionally built through the thighs and trunk, herding pregnant hogs who weigh triple what she does into chutes to birth their litters and hefting buckets of dead piglets down quarter-mile alleys to where theyre later processed. Its backbreaking labor, nine-hour days in stifling barns in Wyoming, and no training could prepare her for the sensory assault of 10,000 pigs in close quarters: the stench of their shit, piled three feet high in the slanted trenches below; the blood on sows snouts cut by cages so tight they cant turn around or lie sideways; the racking cries of broken-legged pigs, hauled into alleys by dead-eyed workers and left there to die of exposure. Its the worst job she or anyone else has had, but Sarah isnt grousing about the conditions. Shes too busy waging war on the hogs behalf.
http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/belly-beast-meat-factory-farms-animal-activists
Mortos
(2,390 posts)It makes me sick to think of the food I put in my body coming from places like this...and it does.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)that is literal for many best not to eat it
BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)but found it here with a search.
I still eat meat. I doubt I can continue, should I have the stomach to watch and read this in its entirety.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)When corporations maximize profits it is at the expense of all of us. Pure greed.