What’s it like to watch a slaughter?

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By Nathanael JohnsonJul 24, 2015, 5:00 am172 pts
I went to the slaughterhouse to see what happened to the animals, yes, but even more, to see what happened to myself. I wanted to test my expectations against reality, and I wondered how the experience would affect me. When I told the UC Davis geneticist and cattle enthusiast Alison Van Eenennaam that I was…

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