1. which of the following words best characterizes the author's opinion of the plant in the following passage? sides of beef suspended from an overhead trolley swing toward a group of men. each worker has a large knife in one hand and a steel hook in the other. they grab the meat with their hooks and attack it fiercely with their knives. as they hack away, using all their strength, grunting, the place suddenly feels different, primordial. the machinery seems beside the point, and what's going on before me has been going on for thousands of years—the meat, the hook, the knife, men straining to cut more meat. work cited schlosser, eric. “the most dangerous job.” fast food nation: the dark side of the all-american meal. boston: houghton mifflin, 2001. 169-192. print. a. overly mechanized b. brutal c. surprisingly peaceful d. sentimental