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Klara Trebbien Rasmussen has written a book about her time as an unskilled worker in a conventional pig farm. It is not reading for the faint-hearted.

When she quit after a month, she had thrown so many piglets onto the concrete floor that her shoulder had started to ache.

Her name was Klara Rasmussen when she applied for a job in the pig industry. The journalist succeeded in getting a job with a farmer who had a total of over 10,000 pigs. Foto: Peter Maunsbach
Her name was Klara Rasmussen when she applied for a job in the pig industry. The journalist succeeded in getting a job with a farmer who had a total of over 10,000 pigs. Foto: Peter Maunsbach
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Klara Trebbien Rasmussen had never euthanized a mammal before, when she stepped into the production hall of a farm somewhere in Denmark and donned overalls to work as an unskilled agricultural worker a day in the spring of 2025.

Before that, she had changed her name to ’Klara Rasmussen’ so that it wouldn’t be discovered that she was a journalist.

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