![]() He says the book is not intended primarily to promote animal rights or turn meat eaters into vegetarians, but his narrative may encourage those results among some readers. Pachirat's firsthand descriptions of how the cattle are killed and butchered are graphic and stomach turning. The primary theory revolves around how societies keep unpleasant institutions as invisible as possible from the consuming public. Mostly, he succeeds, despite his interjections of theory derived from scholars both well known and obscure. The author writes that he was determined to publish an interesting narrative, unlike most books by academics, often just expansions of their dissertations. He obtained employment after only the most cursory of interviews, partly because he looked the part (he is half Thai and therefore brown skinned) and partly because the turnover at slaughterhouses often reaches 100 percent annually. ![]() ![]() Pachirat (Politics/New School Univ.) settled in Omaha in 2004 to conduct participant-observation research at a large slaughterhouse processing 2,500 cattle per day. An in-depth examination by an undercover academic about the slaughtering of cattle for food. ![]()
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