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Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

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This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s standpoint. The creator, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was once employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—one each and every twelve seconds. Working in the cooler as a liver hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, and at the kill floor as a food-safety quality-keep an eye on worker, Pachirat experienced firsthand the realities of the work of killing in brand new society. He uses those experiences to explore not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor and hide away that which is too repugnant to contemplate.

Through his vivid narrative and ethnographic approach, Pachirat brings to life massive, routine killing from the viewpoint of individuals who take part in it. He shows how surveillance and sequestration operate within the slaughterhouse and in its interactions with the community at large. He also considers how society is organized to distance and hide uncomfortable realities from view. With much to say about issues ranging from the sociology of violence and brand new food production to animal rights and welfare, Every Twelve Seconds is the most important and disturbing work.

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