Hey everyone
This is a bit of a heavy episode. In this episode, I discuss what happens to humans who work in slaughterhouses and meat packaging plants. Spoiler: it is not good.
Here is a link to all the articles I reference and read from in the episode;
Legal https://www.schmidtlaw.com/coronavirus-meat-packing-plant-lawsuit/
Mental Health and meat https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380211030243#:~:text=Staff%20with%20the%20job%20role,other%20roles%20in%20the%20slaughterhouse.
Covid in American meat packaging https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/essentials-meatpeacking-coronavirus/611437/
Why immigrants in the meat industry https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trumps-invasion-was-a-corporate-recruitment-drive/596230/
Statistics on workers https://www.epi.org/blog/meat-and-poultry-worker-demographics/
Teresa’s story https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/11/489468205/working-the-chain-slaughterhouse-workers-face-lifelong-injuries
Cargill Plant https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/what-cargill-workers-want
Some vegan resources that may be of interest to you;
Ed Winters (Earthling Ed) on the Rich Roll Podcast. In it they do mention the issues Slaughterhouse Workers face as well as a load of other things of importance to vegans: https://www.richroll.com/podcast/ed-winters-670/
Earthling Ed's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/EarthlingEdChannel
Go Vegan 30 day challenge: https://www.veganeasy.org/30-day-challenge/30-day-menu/
Nutrition Facts.org: https://nutritionfacts.org/
Goji Man: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8zKmTVcs5s3IIR2DVlxfzA
Milked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCwpsMtmMhM Trigger warning this is a documentary about animal agriculture
Dominion: https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch Trigger warning this is also a documentary about animal agriculture
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