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    • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      I knew it was bad. I never, ever could’ve imagined how horrific it is to see.

      Also (since I already responded to this)

      "If it's good enough for your stomach, it's good enough for your eyes." That's an adage activists use sometimes to convince carnists to watch documentaries or footage like this.

      You'll see some users here get very upset when we refer to meat as a tortured corpse, even hyperbolically accusing vegans of emotional abuse for using that language. But it's important to eschew euphemisms and abstractions. We need to stop putting carnist fragility over the literal trillions of lives we take every year.

    • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      We do have to avoid criticizing the actual workers that do the slaughtering, they're often undocumented immigrants and only do the work because they can find nothing else. They're exploited as well, often at threat of deportation by the factory farm company.

        • 24324564745364253q49 [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm sure there's a lot of coping mechanisms needed to work in a place beating the shit out of animals all day, the smell of blood and rotting around you. Apparently a lot of slaughterhouse workers get PTSD from it.

    • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      and then every fucking human element in the process is a complete fucking sadist.

      They have to be. There's not a lot of other ways to cope. Here's more info on slaughterhouse workers:

      https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slaughterhouse-workers/