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A typical day of meat production. Monotonous packagers wearing white coats manipulating red, yellow and green boxes full of meat. Blue coated workers slicing up the meat on pitch white cutting boards covered in a radiance of red meat; A bright green floor stained with red from clumsy cutters. Conveyor belts sending packages of meat throughout the building, never to be seen again by the workers who package them. Sounds ring out of knives slicing and dicing, smashing into cutting boards, drowned out by the operation of the conveyor belt, occasionally interrupted by meat hitting the scales and rarely, the floor. The smell of raw meat fills the air, constricting the senses, but goes unnoticed by the workers who live and breathe the meat.