Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is (rightfully) considered a modern literary masterpiece. It propelled Vonnegut, who had been largely ignored and classified as a sci-fi paperback writer, to fame ...

The comprehensiveness of his experience makes Every Twelve Seconds especially valuable, considering the meat industry’s campaign to stamp out precisely this sort of research. Iowa and Utah have ...

The abattoir has been an ongoing concern for artists since its inception, from Lovis Corinth’s 1893 painting In the Slaughter House, to Chaim Soutine’s gristly Carcass of Beef (1925). Aria Dean’s ...

Wanting to see how meat is killed and processed on the industrial scale, Timothy Pachirat posed as a plant worker. Here's what he saw. Timothy Pachirat's first book, Every Twelve Seconds: ...