Slaughterhouse is a tale of unfathomable insanity, cruelty, and evil.
It has taken the relentless work of a courageous woman to bring the horrifying details of the slaughterhouse to public attention. In Slaughterhouse , and her recent legal activism, she takes on the USDA itself and reveals its lies and disinformation campaigns. On Eisnitz's account, serious problems in the industry started in the late 1970s, when new technologies were increasing the slaughter rates and, with them, levels of pathogenic contamination. Then, with the Reagan administration, the USDA, like other government agencies, was deregulated, allowing the meat industry to police itself. Standing at the end of the line, unable to witness the killing and trimming processes, inspectors are allowed to sample only a fraction of a per cent of the carcasses.