The End of Meat

Timothy Pachirat: So I went, uh, undercover in an industrialized slaughterhouse because I was interested in understanding how massive processes of violence work in what we call modern civilized society. Slaughterhouses, for the most part, are located far out of urban areas. They're located in rural areas where the vast majority of urban consumers will never have to confront what takes place inside of them. They're also hidden socially. We delegate the work of killing to a group of people who have very little rights. We also hide them, uh, linguistically, right. Steers become steaks and heifers become hamburgers. We hide places of violence. We hide places of, of ugliness, uh, so that we can continue to live as if they didn't exist while still relying on their products in our everyday lives.