What does a slaughter house worker make?

Answer 1

Having studied this in my philosophy class on food ethics, I would argue they aren't paid enough. The simple truth is that most of our slaughterhouse employees that do the actual killings are just immigrant workers that cannot work anywhere else. They get paid very little and take whatever work they can get.

Because we don't have laws that are strictly regulated and workers who are underpaid and untrained, most of the the animals die in a rather unfortunate way. From a psychological standpoint, the workers have a tendency to take all of their anger and stress from being paid very little and worked very hard and they use displacement. This is where they take their feelings of aggression and use the animals as a outlet for their anger.

What we need (since converting the nation to vegetarianism is not going to happen) are much more highly regulated and enforced guidelines for animal slaughtering and also workers that are highly trained and well paid for the job they do. We need workers that respect the animal for giving its life for our food and want to end its life as painlessly as possible.