Quotes from slaughterhouse workers are hard to read rule

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There's a lot more in that source as well


Some of them, if you stun them they just look at you and cry… when it cries and then it gives me another thing, of eish (shivering). I like animals and now I am killing the animals. The first week before I started to stun, hey, it was difficult for me


Sometimes I saw myself slaughtering the animals, but you see eyes, I saw, eyes of the animal. It's like its watching me. That thing, that dream, I didn't feel well even when I came back to work, but I keep on checking the eyes to see its watching me, because I saw it in the dream. It's not easy for a first time


In my dream I see the bleeding line, just the cattle hanging on the line, all whose heads are off. I get this picture often. It's not nice to dream about blood; you wake up wet with sweat


And so on

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I mean. People will as readily do this to other people as they will to animals.

The sad fact is we are built to do this. Because we do.

If we were meant to do it then it wouldn't be blessing all these people with PTSD.

Even the Nazis had to innovate ways to execute people because just shooting them was too damaging to the soldiers