Human rights violations in meat-packing plants

Blood, Sweat and Fear is a report by Human Rights Watch documenting the human rights abuses of workers, often poor immigrants, working within slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants in the U.S.. Although, it does not question the fundamental brutality and oppression of the activity in itself, it documents very clearly the exploitation of humans working there.  It makes it quite clear that these circumstances arise not by accident, but by deliberate design.  If the corporate powers are willing to treat humans with such utter contempt, one can understand why it's even more terrible for animals, who have no protection, and are bred and raised for the sole purpose of exploitation and slaughter.