Slaughterhouse

statement is insensitive when considering all the animals being tortured alive in slaughterhouses and to the vegans that do care about these animals. It goes without saying that animal cruelty in slaughterhouses is the main reason why most vegans opt for a vegan diet. The video published by PETA on YouTube titled “Official ‘Glass Walls’ Video by Paul McCartney” reveals the business practices used by slaughterhouses to maximize output. Most animals are squeezed into tiny spaces for efficiency,…

lawmakers. Back in 2011, Australia had a bit of a crisis with their cattle industry. Sharon Schoenmaker and Donald Alexander wrote an essay about the media’s impact on Australian cattle that were being exported live to Indonesia. The Indonesian slaughterhouses did not follow Australia’s guidelines causing the cattle to undergo unnecessary suffering. ABC’s Four Corners created a documentary about the Indonesian slaughtering. The video exploded onto Facebook creating different pages wanting to end…

How do you define success? Is it illustrated as having daily customer traffic on average of sixty-two million, becoming the 90th-largest economy in the world making twenty-four billion in revenue, and being the largest distributor of toys in the world? McDonald’s has built a chain that, in fact, has accomplished each one of those. However, is success solely driven by achievement and power? What about success can become toxic? As McDonald’s continues to grow over numerous years, its road to…

Additives, obesity, and processed meat, oh my! When it comes to being knowledgeable about the products that have been stacked on the shelves for weeks, or the meat that has been stuffed with GMO’s and slaughtered horrifically, the public does not know much. The industries do not tell the consumer enough about what is in the food and the conditions it took to get the food from factory to market. Shockingly, the future children of America are being fed hundreds of repulsive chemicals in their…

He uses logos to compare meat-packing industry workers to other workers in America. He says the injury rate in a slaughterhouse is three times higher than the rate in a typical American factory (172). Here Schlosser is using Logos to instill shock in readers. Then, Schlosser notes that injuries in the factory are avoidable. He says dull knives, and a lack of safety equipment…

war's dislocation” (“Joe Haldeman Quotes.”). This means that the trauma of war is as inescapable as Einstein’s laws of relativity. The authors of these books explore the inevitability of war’s trauma throughout their works. In Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, the authors use the rhetorical devices of imagery, similes, personification, and arrangement in order to achieve their purposes of demonstrating the destructiveness and terrible reality of war;…

The story of Animal Farm isn’t just a story of animals cooperating together as a strong union. Rather, the story depicts the menacing actions of a pig named Napoleon, the farm is the functioning dictatorship in which he is running quite easily. George Orwell, in Animal Farm, details the rising leadership of a notorious pig who ends up dying at the end from intoxication from drinking too much. As Napoleon is alive he eliminated certain rights from the animals and switched the several…

Would you imagine being imprisoned and physically tormented when you are pregnant? There is so much negativity spreading across the natural world and it seems as if there is no end to it. Premarin a prescription for cruelty. Also known as “PMU” a drug prescribed to women worldwide as a hormone replacement therapy and the pregnant mares are used brutally to produce this drug. Why are humans becoming so inhumane? Alice Walker’s essay “Am I Blue” is a voice of anger and concern for the solitude and…

Sadly in the world today there are many types of discrimination, prejudice, and disparities that hinder society and keep it divided. Three very prevalent and troublesome inequalities are that of class, gender, and race. These prejudices that we still allow to be a part of our societies in this day and age tear us apart, weaken communities and distract us from more important issues that threaten everyone. In Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley’s, “Amid China’s Boom, No Helping Hand for Qingming,” is…

Director of films The Host and Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho’s American-Korean film Okja was released on Netflix on June 28, 2017. Filmed by cinematographer Darius Khondji, the film features a talented cast including Tilda Swinton, Ahn Seo-hyun, Paul Dano, and Jake Gyllenhaal. The film has taken place in both the United States and South Korea, showing both sides of culture such as traditional clothing and rituals, scenery through nature, and various others throughout it. The action-packed film sends…