what do you think of these jobs?

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(clicky)slaughterhouse work is so awful that Canada can't find anyone to do it
granted the job doesn't require lots of social interaction, but that is the only salient feature of it. repetitive motion injuries are just the beginning of this job. people have walked off the job after just a few hours of doing this stuff. how desperate would you have to be to work in a slaughterhouse? god be with those who find themselves in this situation, but this aspie could not do it, ever.

No, NEVER! I'm a vegetarian and an animal rights supporter so no it would be going against what I believe in. Not even if it was the only job I could take!

I wouldn't get a job in a slaughterhouse.

I really wish I didn't like steak so much---because I really do like cows. I wish all cows could live their full lives.

I saw a documentary once, it was filmed somewhere in an Asian part of the world, it showed a restaurant that served dogmeat, and in back of the restaurant was a [dead] dog on a spit, the proprietor was picking off pieces to see how well done it was, and fed pieces to his happily tail-wagging dog sitting next to him. that messed with my head. it is one thing entirely when one eats meat not having a personal relationship with the commonly eaten animal that one is eating, but I don't know how one could eat one's pet sitting right there next to him.

That story really is too instructive!

It goes to show-----we have animalistic needs, too!

No matter how great our intentions are.

unlike most meat eaters, I cannot handle rare or medium-rare, mine's gotta be well-done with no trace of blood. I guess mebbe on a psychological level, that is my psychic separation from the animalistic part of me that I mostly suppress.

I just ate chicken breast sausage. Yum!
The texture...
The taste...
The irony...

But no, I would never work at a slaughterhouse.

In a perverse way it's good that someone else is doing the killing for us so we can turn a blind eye to the cruelty behind the scenes.

Behh.. Reading about this stuff makes me feel kinda sick.
I've always been grossed out by dead things and the like, and-- gehh, I dunno, just reading this conjures a big fear of mine.

When I was little I used to freak out around the seafood display because I didn't like to look at the dead fish. They were always so freaky, so.. empty, their eyes were so wide.

Even now such things still gross me out. There was a day a while ago in my biology class when my teacher bought a dead flounder to school.

He had wrapped it in a plastic bag and we were passing it around the classroom.

Then the girl next to me just kind of it onto my desk like--squelch (it was quite a disgusting noise, like slicing into a grapefruit) and there was this small tear in the side where some of its guts had started leaking out.. Ugg. I was so freaked out, I literally jumped back so hard that my desk fell over. The whole class started laughing.

Luckily the fish was okay, I didn't drop it, but.. still.
I will never forget the look of those eyes staring back at me. The dead, soulless fish eyes.

if [in 1969] they could send a man to the GD moon, by now they coulda made a suitable fake meat economical for mass-production.

Sure, I don't feel bad at the sight of blood and flesh...
Until I get to touch or smell them.


I've seen plenty of slaughter houses before, and I often pass by or go to wet markets.
I don't want to work in either places. Especially that my allergy reacts really badly on certain odors.

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I wonder how many dedicated carnivores would go real-meat-free if they were offered a suitable and economical alternative fake meat?

I'll stick with the bank.

I'll have the yummy ice cream.

I'd like some roast beef ice cream [yes, it exists]. I opened a van of nominally vegetable/beef soup, and I was grossed out in that there was abundant gristle floating in a sea of oily grease in the top half of the can.