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Slaughterhouse : the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the U.S. meat industry /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisnitz, Gail A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 1997.
Subjects:
Abattoirs > United States.
Animal Welfare > United States.
Food Inspection > United States.
Meat > United States.
Meat-Packing Industry > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Opening the slaughterhouse door
  • One man's cry for help
  • Will we get out of here alive?
  • Darkest place in the universe
  • 'Mommy, am I going to die?'
  • Fall guy
  • pt. 2. Stickers' confessions
  • Man with the scar
  • Pangs of conscience
  • Blood-red and frozen
  • pt. 3. 'Slaughterhouse eight'
  • Beyond the law
  • Slunks, haulers, and "too-dead" cows
  • Trip to the state pen
  • Sixty-minute investigation
  • pt. 4. USDA deregulates: full line speeds ahead
  • Pandora's box of pathogens
  • USDA's sacred cow
  • This little piggy dragged to market
  • Veterinary turncoats
  • Thumper
  • Guardian angel
  • Secretary of agriculture erects a smokescreen
  • pt. 5. Friends in high places
  • Amost dying for a cause
  • In bed with a bird
  • Lesson
  • pt. 6. Debased side of human nature
  • America's premier hog kill
  • Army of walking wounded
  • Piercing the veil of secrecy
  • HACCP: a trojan horse for deregulation
  • Education and empowerment