Not eating meat, a human rights issue

[Catherine]

I came across a very interesting article. The writer is not an animal rights activist or even someone who cares about animals all that much. He cares about human rights and the rights of workers. In particular he cares about the right of workers to have a "mentally healthy workplace".
He quit eating meat because of the effect working in a slaughterhouse had on workers.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transforma...man-rights

It is an interesting perspective on the issue of killing animals for food. Many of us are not happy with how animals are treated.
That is reason enough to stop eating meat.

When you bring in the issue of the workers who kill the animals it opens up a whole new area.
We have all seen videos of workers abusing animals. It is a scary thought that these people might have been normal healthy people before they took their jobs. Killing meat for the rest of us has turned them into something frightening and dangerous.

The work has made them sick. Is this different that exposing workers to asbestos and making them sick.

If the work makes them sick then it violates work place safety laws. No one should have to work in a place like a slaughterhouse. To change the conditions for the workers would require a lot of changes in the industry.
I don't know what kind of changes, but they would have to be substantial.