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Tracy at Digging Though the Dirt wrote “A Violent Vocation” wherein she discusses Labor Day from another perspective:
“Slaughterhouse” by Gail Eisnitz documents testimony from employees at various U.S. slaughterhouses. They talk of a production system that moves too fast to render animals unconscious. Despite numerous complaints to management — as well as countless injuries — the companies refuse to make changes because slowing the process would mean not making as much money. When animals are not properly stunned (rendered unconscious), they fight for their lives, kicking workers, falling on top of them, running over them.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, almost one in three slaughterhouse workers gets ill or injured each year. In other manufacturing jobs the rate is one in 10.
This gives us two reasons to go vegan:
- For animals - who don’t want to get hurt or die
- For (human) workers – who don’t want to get hurt or die
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