Sadly, it is. The types of conditions in processing facilities make a lot of the employees temporarily insane. They're asked to do inhumane things and thus become what they do. I even pity the workers. Most of them are illegal immigrants being paid shit wages to do horrible things to these animals. Do you honestly believe that if it was not commonplace that this bill would have even been considered?
Besides, I cannot believe that some of the shit in that film, like seals being skinned alive, is par for the course.