Eating Animals 2

By 1908, conveyer systems were introduced to the disassembly lines , allowing supervisors rather than workers to control line speeds. These speeds would ramp upward for more than eigthy years
- in many cases doubling and even tripling- with predictable increases in ineffective slaughter and associated workplace injuries.
Despite these trends in processing, at the dawn of the twentieth century, animals were still largely raised on farms and ranches in much the same manner they had always been- and most people continue to imagine. It hadn´t yet occured to farmers to treat living animals like dead ones.



Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals, pg 104