When you go to the store and buy a package of meat, do you ever sit and think of were that meat came from? In Fast Food Nation it states how hundreds of thousands of cattle are slaughter and processed in slaughterhouses across our nation. Workers that work eight hours every day in highly dangerous conditions. As one worker said, "They told us if one hand is no good, then use the other." People that worked there would say to put your pant legs in your shoes or boots so that you won't get blood on them from the floor. Picture walking through it and have your pants soaked in blood thick enough so you can't see the floor.
They now use electricity to kill the animals as a way to mass kill. The workers would say, "All you hear is the pop, pop, pop, pop from the shockers." which allowed the company to speed up the line and produce even more. You walk across the factory floor dodging handing halves of beef fly through the air and "if you get hit", one worker told, "you would out cold or worse." The everyday local meat house is no longer what American relies on. Now it is these meat giants supply every store, restaurant, dinner, and schools. What used to be a high pay, high skilled job has now been turned around and has basically become a monopoly for the meat market. Yet, we as Americans continue to live our lives, buy meat at store instead of at the local butchers, unaware of what our nation has become. What people are kept from knowing, and we may never know or care. But this book and these chapters made me rethink our society and what it has become. We should be ashamed of it and try to fix it, but it keeps getting further and further out of hand. Our society is now controlled by the big companies and no one will try to stand up to them and just simply say no more.
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