"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.”

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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

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