It’s about the larger phenomenon whereby modern society has reconstructed itself to hide so many horrific consequences from view.Ĭalling this the "politics of sight," Pachirat's blood-soaked experience inside a slaughterhouse spotlights only the most illustrative example of how we've divorced ourselves from the means of producing violence - and how, in doing so, we have made it psychologically easier to support such brutality. Would Americans eat less meat, and would animals be treated more humanely, if slaughterhouses were made with glass walls and we all could see the monstrous killing apparatus at work? This is the query at the heart of Timothy Pachirat's new book, "Every Twelve Seconds" - the title a reference to the typical slaughterhouse's cattle-killing rate.īefore you think this is a column merely about food, recognize that Pachirat's question isn't (only) about the immorality of the cheeseburger you had for lunch.
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