According to Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser, working in a factory farm is currently the world's most dangerous job. When I first started reading the book, I didn't believe this; however, as I got further into the book, I was convinced that yes, a job linked to factory farming is the most dangerous job we have ever encountered. Long, sharp knives, puddles of infected feces, rivers of blood; all characters of a day in the life of a factory farmer.
Because of the huge stress put on the workers to finish their assigned work, they do not take the time to do things that can help lower the harm of working in a factory farm. One of these is sharpening knives to make slitting a cow's throat easier for the worker,or to simply wipe working spaces to ensure a germ free working environment. Both of these result in a very risky job for the factory farmers, and health risks for us people who eat the factory's meat.
All in all, the stressful production of meat results in a causal relationship; the workers are stressed to finish loads of work, they rush and don't work in sanity, and in the end both the workers and us are put in danger. My opinion: Not only does factory farming hurt animals, who are obviously treated cruelly, but it ends up getting to us when we eat meat. The number of people who die each year from food poisoning caused by meat in food such as burgers is going up every year. "E.coli is not in every burger, but in can be in any burger." http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/25-e-coli-now-a-national-epidemic-kills-500-americans-annually/. This is an article about the E.coli in our everyday hamburgers; a very good read, that is if you are concerned in this horrendous topic like I am.
