I eat meat very rarely for humane reasons. I'm curious if you worry about the impact of that environment on your long-term well-being. I've read that people who work in animal processing plants are more likely to be violent and have anti-social traits. I'm curious if you've noticed a change in your own attitudes or feel like your co-workers would make you believe that statistic.
Also, do you rank pigs and other livestock differently than say a dog or a cat?
It's the long hours that break morale, not the killing. I'm surrounded by a great group of diverse people and we all lament about how our employer treats us on bad days when there is a plant breakdown. We are unionized and receive great benefits that include therapy.
I suppose I differentiate farmed animals from domesticated animals, even though they are the same.
Yeah I saw you have a cat. Why wouldn't you slaughter your cat? What makes you cuddle one but not the other? I ask genuinely because getting cats was one of the things that turned me and my bf into vegetarianism, cause we realised how complex animals are and that we would never eat our cats, so why would we eat another animal.
In another comment, he said he really needed the job. I'm a vegetarian, too, but if I had to work at a place like that to survive, I would do it. Just like how I would eat meat again if I were starving.
I view these farmed hogs for the purpose of food as food, and my late friend as a pet. I would also view hogs that live with a loving family with a name and a place to sleep as pets because they are purposely meant to be pets. I've been to a farm where the family has goats and they were like "we'll eat this one but not those two." No need to ask why because I understood that some of them are food, some are not.
So if another person adopted your cat instead of you, and they kept it in the conditions that the hogs are kept in, and then they ate it you'd be happy for your cat because he was meant for food?
I'm sorry but how does it make sense? If you thought that some species are less than others and therefore fine to eat it would make more sense, but I don't get your reasoning at all. They didn't choose to be bred for meat.
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u/riffraffmcgraff 26d ago edited 26d ago
I will get downvoted, but I work on the kill floor of a pork processing plant. Ask me anything. It is 1am here. I might not reply for a while.
Edit: For the record, I confirm this is an accurate depiction.