"Not a Person Friendly Place"

The documentary Food, INC. by Robert Kenner brings up an idea that the controlling type of mentality that the industrial corporations apply to treating animals on the farms is also applied to workers and individuals in their own communities, as well as to consumers.

As Polyface farms owner Joel Salatin points out modern industrial agriculture follows the motto "faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper", disregarding the interests of the customers, working conditions on the plants, and ecological health of the whole system. 

One of the workers at the Smithfield hog processing plant says that the authorities have the same mentality towards the workers, as they do towards the hogs. And as it can be seen in the video shot by worker's hidden camera - that is the mentality of disdain and disrespect. People are treated as a "human machine". The worker also notes that they don't care about the longevity of the workers, because to them everything has an end. A union organizer Eduardo Peña comments on that statement by saying that Smithfield has mastered the art of picking the workforce that they can exploit. And even when they engage in a criminal activity by bringing the illegal workers across the US border from Mexico, "the government is not cracking down on the companies, the government is cracking down on the workers".

But no one can actually see what's going on behind the plant walls, as Joel Salatin observes that the industrial food system became so noisy, smelly and "not a person-friendly place" that people operating at those megaprocessing facilities don't want anyone to go there, because than customers would see "the ugly truth".