PHIL 2281 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hobby Farm, Wendell Berry, Societal Security
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Foer: paradise locker meats is one of the last bastions of independent slaughtering in the. Midwest and is a godsend for the local farming community. Large corporations have bought out and closed virtually all of the independent slaughterhouses, forcing farmers into their system. And he"s gonna use a shocker [a stun gun that renders animals unconscious quickly]. Once they"re shocked, we pull "em up on the winch and bleed "em. What our goal is, what we have to do under the humane [methods of slaughter] act, is that the animal has to go down and it can"t be blinking. By the time a pig comes into view, he or she is already a thing. (3: the blocked line of sight also prevents the usda inspector, doc, from being able to see the slaughter. This seems problematic, as it is his responsibility to inspect the living animal for any illnesses or defects that would make it unsuitable for human consumption.
