All My Carnists

006: Slaughterhouses | A Worker’s Perspective


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Did All My Carnists just slip into the Twilight Zone or are these vegans actually talking about something besides animals?!? That’s right! This week, we dive into the horrors that slaughterhouses and meat processing plants present for their workers from physical injuries to psychological trauma. How this industry purposefully exploits low income communities and migrant workers into their workforce while using intimidation tactics to deter the reporting of unsafe working conditions. We also examine how the repetition of high-volume violence to maintain profit margins impacts these workers even in their home lives in this classic capitalist tale of employer-employee relations. But no episode of All My Carnists is complete without Henry putting our Clown of the Week in front of the firing squad or Sean enlightening us with our Vegan of the Week. Plus Kevin gets grim with his List of Tales of Slaughterhouse Horrors.
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