ABSTRACT
One could easily argue that a similar depiction of industrial animal production is quite plausible, full of worker exploitation, animal abuse, farmer abuse, inept regulatory policies and efforts, and the overall fault of an economic system that focuses, inexorably, on wealth maximization for those with access to capital. First of all, there is no animal that is happy with industrialized, intensive production. one might argue that the lambs and cows on a cow-calf ranch are best off because they are out grazing for some of their relatively short lives. Workers on farms and in slaughterhouses will presumably continue to work at cut throat speeds for low wages. Discursively, this path might be considered one of security and stability. The issues of workers in slaughterhouses have been examined by numerous authors, including most recently, Tim Pachirat's exemplary Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight.
