Slaughterhouse [Audiobook] download free by Gail A. Eisnitz
- Listen audiobook: Slaughterhouse
- Author: Gail A. Eisnitz
- Release date: 2006/4/12
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9781591024507
- Rating: 8.33 of 10
- Votes: 634
- Review by: Skyla Callaway
- Review rating: 7.68 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/9
- Duration: 4H9M38S in 256 kbps (65.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 DST, MPEG4, MOD, WAV, Musepack, WMA, MP3, FLAC (compression CBC, RAR, ZIP, ALZ)
- Total pages original book: 328
- Includes a PDF summary of 39 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 30M (7.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: What started out, with a single complaint about a Florida slaughterhouse turned into a tale of intrigue and suspense as investigator Gail A. Eisnitz unearthed more startling information about the meat and poultry Americans consume. This shocking story follows Eisnitz as she becomes submerged in a slaughterhouse subculture, venturing deeper and deeper into the lives of the workers. As the stakes become higher in her David-and-Goliath-type battle, this determined young woman finds herself courageously taking on one of America's most powerful industries. Slaughterhouse takes readers on a frightening but true journey from one slaughterhouse to another throughout the country. Along the way we encounter example after example of mistreated animals...intolerable working conditions...lax standards...the slow, painful deaths of children killed as a result of eating contaminated meat...the author's battle with the major television networks...and a dangerously corrupt federal agency that chooses to do nothing rather than risk the wrath of agribusiness...before the whole affair is blown wide open in this powerful expose. In an effort to understand how such rampant violations could occur right under the noses of U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) inspectors - the individuals charged with enforcing humane regulations in slaughterhouses - Eisnitz examines the inspectors' track record for enforcing meat and poultry safety regulations, their primary responsibility. Following a long paper trail, she learns that contaminated meat and poultry are pouring out of federally inspected slaughterhouses and, not surprisingly, deaths from foodborne illness have quadrupled in the United States in the lastfifteen years. Determined to tell the whole story, Eisnitz then examines the physical price paid by employees working in one of America's most dangerous industries. In addition to suffering disfiguring injuries and crippling repetitive motion disorders, employees describe tyrannical wo
- Other categories, genre or collection: Manufacturing Industries, Food & Beverage Technology, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Conspiracy Theories, Animals & Society, Industry & Industrial Studies, Central Government Policies, Wildlife: General Interest, Agriculture & Related Industries
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 27.33 USD
- Dimensions: 155x227x16mm
- Weight: 466g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Amherst, United States
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