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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/05/amputations-serious-injuries-us-meat-industry-plant
TIL that an average of 2 amputations occur weekly at US meatpacking plants.
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If you count all the animals that number is actually way higher
The first “reason” presented to me for turning vegetarian that I might actually consider.
Not really the setting I’d choose for such an operation, but okay
2 amputations *that are reported*
There’s mostly immigrant labor in those plants. I’d bet a lot of them are patched up by the company nurse and sent home for the day.
Oh god…I mean is there anything else to say
That seems stupidly high.
What would Upton Sinclair think?
Think you’ll find that they’re quietly referred to as ‘hamputations’ in this respect
Finger buffet, anyone?
Eating meat is killing us.
This is dumb and unacceptable. How can this be a 21st century statistic?
I mean, fingers are gristley, but they’re not hurting anything.