This overlooked cause of PTSD is only going to get worse

Photo: Sides of beef in a refrigerator at a slaughterhouse in Corpus Christi, Texas on June 10, 2008. Photo credit: USDA photo by Alice Welch via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Kenny Torrella. Vox – June 4, 2025.

In The Dying Trade, a forthcoming documentary film about slaughterhouse workers, a man named Tom describes a moment during his career that still haunts him many years later: the time he skinned a cow alive while she was giving birth. Tom worked at slaughterhouses across Europe from the late 1990s to the mid-2010s, and one of his jobs on the production line was to remove the skin from animals after they had been hung up, stunned unconscious, and bled out. That’s how it’s supposed to work in theory. […]

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