Harvest & Slaughter
As a result of the technological advances applied to crop and animal cultivation, there are billions of animals and pounds of produce to be slaughtered and harvested annually. The institution of industrial agriculture constantly works to achieve its goal: to maximize food production while minimizing costs, including labor.
Recent News
Farmworkers and the Virus (Living on Earth, 2020)
‘The workers are being sacrificed’: As cases mounted, meatpacker JBS kept people on crowded factory floors (FERN, 2020)
Books
I Am Not A Tractor!: How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won (Marquis, 2017)
The Jungle (Sinclair, 1906)
Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Pachirat, 2011)
We Just Keep Running the Line: Black Southern Women and the Poultry Processing Industry (Gray, 2014)