A “war on factory farming” begins in Denver, and immigrant workers may be the first casualties

Editor’s note: This article contains numerous images from a slaughterhouse. They came to Denver from Honduras, Colombia and Mexico. Here, they work behind a locked gate, in a plant that smells of manure, raw meat and soap. Each day, they kill, gut, butcher, package and ship roughly 1,500 sheep for Superior Farms. It’s the largest lamb slaughterhouse in the United States – and the only slaughterhouse in Denver.

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