I love animals too but if Americans expect to eat $1 a pound chicken, $1.50 a doz. eggs, cheap milk and beef then the system has to be set up for mass production and mass production is not a pretty sight. We have the largest privately owned meat processor in the country in Corpus. I know men, and it is mostly men, who have worked there and they say that most new hires don't last a week, many don't finish the day, and if they do they have nightmares for the first year of working there. I don't know that these people become serial killers or child beaters but this kind of work can not be good for the soul. Still, it is like people complaining about the trade deficit and all the jobs going to China and then shopping at Wal Mart or complaining about the illegals yet not turning down a $20 lawn mowing.