Slaughterhouses are some of the worst workplaces. Most animals are slaughtered in front of each other with no stunning. In many states in India, cow slaughter is forbidden but keeping an animal that is non-productive is unaffordable. These animals are clandestinely slaughtered without getting stunned or are transported under abysmal conditions to distant slaughterhouses and often slaughtered in front of one another.  The workers are poor, often illiterate, and sometimes children. They are treated almost as callously as the animals dying by the billions in those same facilities. The pay is low, turnover is high, and injuries and illnesses are frequent and often severe.