Veganism or barbarism. https://twitter.com/civileats/status/1327037567750041605
Line speeds at plants have long been too fast to accommodate anything resembling “welfare” for animals or humans. In 2015 @Oxfam published this analysis of the effects of high-speed chicken processing. Even then, lines were too fast. https://s3.amazonaws.com/oxfam-us/www/static/media/files/Lives_on_the_Line_Full_Report_Final.pdf
The animals have already lived through hell and are going to die, but line speeds are designed to maximize the extraction of value from human labor, at the cost of injuries and death. This book (not about meat) has helped me think through this: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/dead-labor
Dead Labor

A groundbreaking consideration of death from capitalism, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/dead-labor
If you care not only about animals but about human laborers, perhaps the best way to show them both solidarity is to not support this industry. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/solidarity-across-species
Solidarity Across Species | Dissent Magazine

The destruction and exploitation of non-human life has forced different kinds of animals into closer and closer contact with each other, increasing the likelihood that viruses like COVID-19 will...

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/solidarity-across-species
One of countless examples of this from yesterday’s @USATODAY: in the meat business, workers are disposable. https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/6044754002#click=https://t.co/HuFmz0YDYq
‘They think workers are like dogs.’ How pork plant execs sacrificed safety for profits.

From City Hall to the White House, our investigation found, officials let Triumph Foods stay open as hundreds of workers got coronavirus. Four died.

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/6044754002#click=https://t.co/HuFmz0YDYq
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