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Author Eisnitz, Gail A.

Title Slaughterhouse : the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the U.S. meat industry / Gail A. Eisnitz ; with a new afterword by the author.

Publication Info. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
©1997
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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.187 EISNITZ, GAIL A.    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  364.187 EIS    Check Shelf
Description 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents pt. 1. Opening the slaughterhouse door -- Prologue -- 1. One man's cry for help -- 2. Will we get out of here alive? -- 3. The darkest place in the universe -- 4. "Mommy, am I going to die?" -- 5. The fall guy -- pt. 2. The stickers' confessions -- 6. The man with the scar -- 7. Pangs of conscience -- 8. Blood-red and frozen -- pt. 3. The "slaughterhouse eight" -- 9. Beyond the law -- 10. Slunks, haulers, and "too-dead" cows -- 11. A trip to the state pen -- 12. A sixty-minute investigation -- pt. 4. USDA deregulates : full line speeds ahead -- 13. A Pandora's box of pathogens -- 14. The USDA's sacred cow -- 15. This little piggy dragged to market -- 16. Veterinary turncoats -- 17. The thumper -- 18. The guardian angel -- 19. The Secretary of Agriculture erects a smokescreen -- pt. 5. Friends in high places -- 20. Almost dying for a cause -- 21. In bed with a bird -- 22. The lesson -- pt. 6. A debased side of human nature -- 23. America's premier hog kill -- 24. An army of walking wounded -- 25. Piercing the veil of secrecy -- 26. HACCP : a Trojan horse for deregulation -- 27. Education and empowerment -- Afterword. Violations at America's largest meat packer -- Glossary.
Subject Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- United States.
Animal welfare -- United States.
Meat inspection -- United States.
Meat industry and trade -- United States.
ISBN 1591024501 paperback alkaline paper
9781591024507 paperback alkaline paper
1591024501
9781591024507
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