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Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)

Timothy Pachirat

This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant’s point of view. The author, political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day—one every twelve seconds. Working in the cooler as a live...

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They referred to Pasharat's expos on slaughterhouse conditions, noting the book's title highlights how frequently cows are processed.

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There is a guy named Timothy Pasharat who went and worked in a slaughterhouse for a year undercover and published a whole book on this. And the title of the book is Every 12 Seconds.

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They referred to Pasharat's expos on slaughterhouse conditions, noting the book's title highlights how frequently cows are processed.

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There is a guy named Timothy Pasharat who went and worked in a slaughterhouse for a year undercover and published a whole book on this. And the title of the book is Every 12 Seconds.

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