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Slaughterhouse : the Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, And Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry

eBook, English, 2009
Prometheus, Amherst, 2009
1 online resource (174 pages)
9781615920082, 1615920080
1109785897
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One
Opening the Slaughterhouse Door; Prologue; 1
One Man's Cry for Help; 2
Will We Get Out of Here Alive?; 3
The Darkest Place in the Universe; 4
"Mommy, Am I Going to Die?"; 5
The Fall Guy; Part Two
The Stickers' Confessions; 6
The Man with the Scar; 7
Pangs of Conscience; 8
Blood-Red and Frozen; Part Three
The "Slaughterhouse Eight"; 9
Beyond the Law; 10
Slunks, Haulers, and "Too-Dead" Cows; 11
A Trip to the State Pen; 12
A Sixty-Minute Investigation Part Four
USDA Deregulates: Full Line Speeds Ahead13
A Pandora's Box of Pathogens; 14
The USDA's Sacred Cow; 15
This Little Piggy Dragged to Market; 16
Veterinary Turncoats; 17
The Thumper; 18
The Guardian Angel; 19
The Secretary of Agriculture Erects a Smokescreen; Part Five
Friends in High Places; 20
Almost Dying for a Cause; 21
In Bed with a Bird; 22
The Lesson; Part Six
A Debased Side of Human Nature; 23
America's Premier Hog Kill; 24
An Army of Walking Wounded; 25
Piercing the Veil of Secrecy; 26
HACCP: A Trojan Horse for Deregulation 27
Education and EmpowermentAfterword: Violations at America's Largest Meat Packer; Glossary; Index; Back Cover