Slaughterhouse

Gail A. Eisnitz takes on one of America’s most powerful industries in this gut-wrenching, carefully documented look at where meat comes from. Exhaustively researched, Slaughterhouse gives example after example of mistreated animals, intolerable working conditions, lax standards, the slow, painful deaths of children killed as a result of eating contaminated meat, and the corrupt federal agency that chooses to do nothing rather than risk the wrath of agribusiness. Using the testimony of dozens of slaughterhouse workers and USDA inspectors, the author shows how the last hours of innocent, feeling, intelligent cows, calves, pigs, and chickens are filled with terror and agony.