The suggestion of the ethics feedback form to summarize each chapter simply wouldn’t be feasible with this book (because of the amount of chapters it contains) nor would it present an accurate description of the story that is portrayed so for this report I am going to talk about the main points presented in this story and what I think should be done about them.
The book slaughterhouse by Gail a Eisnitz documents one woman's journey all throughout America investigating the human and animal rights violations taking place in animal slaughter houses. She interviews workers, supervisors, inspectors, veterinarians, and even people who have been injured by substandard meat in her quest to bring this information to the masses and lift of the veil of secrecy off of the American meat industry.
What she ultimately discovered was that in the recent years, the smaller slaughter houses were sold out in favor of huge facilities that could produce much more. The supervisors of the plants pushed the limits and increased the line speed so much that animals were not getting properly stunned or knocked out before they went on the next stations. The fact that this occurred led to all the other problems. First, the animals would still be alive when they reached the next station. It's pretty hard to get a cow or a pig to agree to being hung upside down by a chain and so the workers would have to beat them over the head with pipes or use other equally inhumane methods to get them knocked out. They then get hung up on the meat line by a chain attached to their back legs. Sometimes the animals are alive for this and sometimes they have been beaten hard enough to loose consciousness. In either case, once they are strung up ...