Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Food Science, Animal Rights, politics 

What started out with a single complaint about a Florida slaughterhouse turned into a tale of intrigue and suspense as investigate Gail A. Eisnitz unearthed more startling information about the meat and poultry Americans consume. This shocking story follows Eisnitz as she becomes submerged in a slaughterhouse subculture, venturing deeper and deeper into the lives of the workers. Slaughterhouse takes the reader on a frightening but true journey from one slaughterhouse to another through the country. Along the way we encounter example after example of mistreated animals, intolerable working conditions, lax standards, the slow, painful deaths of children killed as a result of eating contaminated meat, the author's battle with the major television networks, and a dangerously corrupt federal agency that choses to do nothing rather than risk the wrath of agribusiness.