![]() ![]() ![]() Pachirat has made those walls transparent, and what he finds is as disturbing as it is unexpected. Many years ago, Michael Pollan wondered what would happen if the walls of a slaughterhouse were made of glass. From that position he moved to the "kill floor" and, eventually, to quality control - a position from which he had to resign, because he could no longer tolerate the institutional pressure to overlook safety violations.Įvery Twelve Seconds is arguably the most nuanced account we have of the relationship between sight and power within the industrial slaughterhouse. It was there that Pachirat, as part of his dissertation research (at Yale), was initially hired to hang cow livers on hooks. Timothy Pachirat's first book, Every Twelve Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight, is a blend of analysis and first-person narrative set in an industrial abattoir in rural Kansas. Wanting to see how meat is killed and processed on the industrial scale, Timothy Pachirat posed as a plant worker. ![]()
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