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The Ethics Of Slaughterhouse

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Behind the sanitized world of fast-food, everyday grocery shopping and culinary delights- all meant to satiate to people’s basic pleasures and needs- is an extraordinarily vast realm of brutality as normal and routine as our mealtime habits. The slaughterhouse emerged as a unique institution in the early 19th century as part of a larger transition from an agrarian to industrial system, accompanied by increased urbanization, technological developments and concern about public hygiene. However, there was awareness of the moral effects of slaughtering animals where it was seen to educate these men in the practice of violence and cruelty and then have no restraint on the use of it. Today, it is accepted that mistreating animals is not an isolated …show more content…

In addition, the act of killing day after day, month after month for years must make an imprint upon one’s personality. It would be the most intimate and bloodstained bond between humans and the animals consume impel slowly forward voiceless Slaughterhouse workers and the animals they’re employed to kill. The speed and the repetitive nature of the work in Slaughterhouses make it one of the most dangerous jobs in the country. Common slaughterhouse injuries include deep cuts, accidental stabbings, and “cumulative trauma”. There is a psychological toll as well. Workers in industrial Slaughterhouses commonly report a strong sense of dehumanization (Kilagour R. 1991) . Thus, it is no surprise that industrial slaughterhouses have one of the highest employee turnover rates of any job in the …show more content…

et al. 2012) With this clear, the researcher wanted to find out the psychological and physiological aftereffects of working in a slaughterhouse. They are not only exposed to a battery of physical dangers on the cut floor, but the psychological weight of their work erodes their well-being. It will come as no surprise that the consequences of such emotional dissonance include domestic violence, social withdrawal, drug and alcohol abuse and severe anxiety. As these continually observe on Slaughterhouse workers, the researcher conducted this study to systematically explore the results of killing sentient animals for a

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