For me it was thumping, the industry standard way of killing piglets by grabbing them by the back of the head and smashing them into concrete until they're dead. That or the CO_2 acidifying every mucus lining in a pig's body, chemically burning them alive while they suffocate to death because people get enjoyment out of it
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I thought they just chopped their heads off or smth this is ridiculous
Context?
For one thing, they contract out their labor to subcontractors who they can hide behind when they repeatedly used child labor in slaughterhouses
https://apnews.com/article/child-labor-meat-processing-poultry-usda-5f8c769b572e57315b8e3b0a57a7e345
Evil makes it sound like it was done with any sort of malicious intent.
But it's just capitalism and its consequences.
"Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals." -Theodor Adorno
I hate the meat industry am much as the next vegetarian, but this makes for very poor memes.