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The Disclosure Podcast

Ep 18: "We're Modern Day Slaves" - The Truth About COVID-19 & The People Who Kill Animals

The Disclosure Podcast

Ed Winters

Ethics, Politics, Whole Foods, Society & Culture, Education, Animals, Morality, Veganism, Philosophy, Vegan, Plant Based Diet

5.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode I delve into the current slaughterhouse situation in the US, talking not only about the outbreaks of COVID-19 in US facilities and the effect that is having on slaughterhouse workers, but also how slaughterhouses foster an environment where workers suffer from mental health problems such as PTSD, drug and alcohol dependency, social isolation and emotional repression. I reflect on some of my personal experiences with slaughterhouses and slaughterhouse workers, and I also discus...

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0:00.0

And the Hello everyone and welcome to the next episode of the Disclosure Podcast. I hope that you're all doing well and I hope that you're safe still

0:25.0

it's been a strange period of time hasn't it the past couple of weeks as we've heard a lot

0:29.4

more conversation about lockdowns ending or not ending but being eased and what that might look like.

0:35.3

I know that in the US has obviously been a lot of talk about opening up the country again

0:39.9

and we're seeing that in Europe as well. In the UK we're kind of entering into the next phase,

0:45.2

although I do have reservations about what this will look like

0:48.4

in terms of the number of people becoming infected

0:51.0

and ultimately dying, I think it's going to be a very interesting few weeks. I use that word interesting rather morbidly perhaps because obviously it could end up going back into a peak,

1:04.2

you know, the second peak, so to speak,

1:05.7

which is what's happened in pandemics beforehand.

1:08.1

Really what I wanted to focus on in today's episode

1:10.3

is the Slaughter House workers,

1:11.8

but I do think it's important to talk a little bit about what maybe might be happening over the next period of time and what that will look like.

1:18.5

So we'll get into that but before we do so I just want to say a couple of things firstly a big thank you to all of you who have

1:25.0

started listening to the podcast recently who've maybe started listing because of the videos I put up with

1:29.5

Dr. Greger or Mike the vegan if that is the case and thank you so much and welcome to the

1:34.5

disclosure podcast. Thank you for being here and thank you for joining for those

1:38.1

of you who have listened before and who are maybe regular listeners then welcome back and thank you for all of the listens.

1:46.0

Big shout out to my patrons.

1:49.0

Big thank you to all of you for allowing me to do the work that I do and for supporting my activism and the

1:54.4

content that I create.

1:56.0

For those of you who like the Disclosure Podcast and maybe interested in getting more content

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