Exploited: The Unexpected Victims of Animal Agriculture
![handle is hein.journals/anim30 and id is 109 raw text is: EXPLOITED: THE UNEXPECTED VICTIMS
OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE
By
Caitlin Kelly*
Awareness of how nonhuman animals suffer in animal agriculture has
been growing for years. But are they the only victims? Selling the products
and parts of hundreds of millions of animals in the United States every year
requires someone to manage those animals. It requires someone to kill those
animals. And it requires someone to dismember those animals long before
they ever reach the neat rows of plastic wrapped packaging at the grocery
store. To accomplish this process at an industrial scale means hundreds to
thousands of animals are together in barns which reek of their waste and
create biohazards for humans. It means dangerously fast line speeds at
slaughterhouses and hyper-foc used jobs dedicated exclusively to killing ani-
mals and making repetitive cuts on their bodies. Unsurprisingly, these jobs
are not desirable. The workers who do them are often desperate or do not
have another choice. This article analyzes three major categories of workers
in animal agriculture and how the law has failed to protect them. These
categories are migrants, prisoners, and children. After exploring the unique
ways each category of workers is exploited in animal agriculture, this article
will explain how the law, or lack thereof made it possible and what changes
can be made to help prevent their exploitation in the future.
I. INTRODUCTION. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..104
II. BACKGROUND .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..106
A T HE R APID GROWT H OF MODE RN
ANIMAL AGRICULTURE. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..106
B. T HE DANGERS OF ANIMAL AGRICULTURE .. .. .. .. . ..108
III. MIGRANTS.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..111
A TEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS .............111
i. Relevant Laws. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..111
ii. The Laws in Practice .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..113
iii. Recommendations for Change. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..114
* Cat E. Kelly recently graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School with a J.D. and a
certificate in Animal Law. She wrote this article for her capstone during her 2L year. Cat
looks forward to beginning a career in animal law and advocating for all those who are
victims of animal industries. She would like to thank everyone who helped her get to this
point and who continues to support her journey and her dreams: her mom and dad who
knew she would be an animal advocate two decades before she did, her partner for his
open mind and heart to learn about these issues and for believing that she can make a
difference, and her four nonhuman companions who remind her why she does this work
and ground her when it gets hard.
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