"These workers also are exposed to a number of harmful gases and regularly inhale particulate matter, which is an innocuous phrase for such things as “dry fecal matter, feed, animal dander and skin cells, feathers, fungi, dry soil and bacterial endotoxins.” 39 In pig confinement operations, nearly 70 percent of workers experience “one or more symptoms of respiratory irritation or illness.”
Sunaura Taylor, Beasts of Burden , on disability liberation
Unsightly slaughterhouses are also placed in low-income communities, and these poisonus particulates create high rates of asthma, pneumonia, cancer and COPD, for example.
Slaughterhouses also increase the rates of depression, PTSD, repetitive strain injuries, and violent crime including sexual assault in these local low income communities.
Sources:
an article on the next study: https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/insight/2010/05/14/probing_the_link_between_slaughterhouses_and_violent_crime.html
the study: http://animalstudies.msu.edu/Slaughterhouses_and_Increased_Crime_Rates.pdf
Read some theory.
BEASTS OF BURDEN
epub: https://b-ok.cc/book/5420846/fda868
mp3 in a zipped folder: https://ufile.io/j8wi1cfx
Muh no ethical consumption! Eating beans is fascist fuck offfff :rage-cry:
