i personally am vegan

Meatpacking's Human Toll

..........Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble
the conscience of every American who eats beef, pork or chicken.
Dispatching
the nonstop tide of animals and birds arriving on plant "kill floors" and "live
hang" areas has always been hazardous and exhausting labor. Turning an 800-pound
animal (or even a five-pound fowl) into products for supermarkets or fast-food
restaurants is, by its nature, demanding physical labor in bloody, greasy
surroundings............

.....The U.S. government does little to protect meatpacking workers. As the
Government Accountability Office has pointed out, the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration has "no specific standard that allows OSHA to cite
employers for hazards" relating to line speed and repetitive stress injuries.
Indeed, job safety enforcement officials do not even have data "to assess the
appropriate speed at which the lines should operate." This information does not
exist because companies refuse to let government regulators or independent
researchers measure line speed, examine workers' knife-cutting motions or study
musculoskeletal injuries from repeated hard cutting...........

years and years (too many to think about) i saw a documentary entitled MEAT. i have been vegetarian (now vegan) ever since. i was headed that way even as a child (i never could eat anything that was on a bone and ate only very well done burgers and an occasional piece of bacon and tuna. i'm not preaching. i don't (however, i will fight if cornered and you do NOT want that to happen), even about veal. i don't think i'm better than anyone else based on the choice of foods i ingest. all i would suggest is you may want to think how that steak got on your plate.