Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat

With much to say about issues ranging from the sociology of violence and modern food production to animal rights and welfare, Every Twelve Seconds is an important and disturbing work. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter. 6 & 7) Novemby dnt18 In chapters six and seven of his book, Every Twelve Seconds, Timothy Pachirat continues to tell the story of his time as a slaughterhouse employee. He also considers how society is organized to distance and hide uncomfortable realities from view. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight TIMOTHY PACHIRAT New Haven and London Published with assistance from the foundation established in memory of Amasa Stone Mather of the Class of 1907, Yale College. He shows how surveillance and sequestration operate within the slaughterhouse and in its interactions with the community at large. Through his vivid narrative and ethnographic approach, Pachirat brings to life massive, routine killing from the perspective of those who take part in it. He uses those experiences to explore not only the slaughter industry but also how, as a society, we facilitate violent labor and hide away that which is too repugnant to contemplate. Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight by Timothy Pachirat Mind if I Order the Cheeseburger Meat is For Pussies The Food. Working in the cooler as a liver hanger, in the chutes as a cattle driver, and on the kill floor as a food-safety quality-control worker, Pachirat experienced firsthand the realities of the work of killing in modern society. Every Twelve Seconds Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight TIMOTHY PACHIRAT New Haven and London Published with assistance from the foundation. 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. A political scientist goes undercover in a modern industrial slaughterhouse for this twenty-first-century update of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant's point of view.

Every Twelve Seconds by Timothy Pachirat