The worst thing, worse than the physical danger, is the emotional
toll. If you work in the stick pit [where hogs are killed] for any period of
time—that let’s [sic] you kill things but doesn’t let you care. You may look
a hog in the eye that’s walking around in the blood pit with you and think,
‘God, that really isn’t a bad looking animal.’ You may want to pet it. Pigs
down on the kill floor have come up to nuzzle me like a puppy. Two minutes
later I had to kill them. … I can’t care.
~ Former slaughterhouse worker, Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of
Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
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