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Summary: Horrifying personal account of the meat industry.
Review: Another horrifying book, this time about the animal food industry. An excellent introduction by Tom Regan points out the effects of the meat industry and the killing of nonhuman animals on the environment, on the human psyche, on social settings. Meat metaphors shape us at the most subcellular level of our awareness of the world. Christians methaphorically eat the flesh of Christ. Nazis use animal methaphors in order to justify their oppression of the Jews and other groups. Men use animal imagery to objectify women. Sue's artwork is fairly stylized but disarming. If you can see it in person, you should. It's a nightmare. There's no way to justify the oppression of so many nonhuman animals, especially because alternatives exist to almost everything for which humans use animals. Imagine if her artwork were photographs instead. She shows us disemboweled pigs, de-beaked chickens, whipped horses. These are linked to our everyday reality, for instance in her painting McWorld. Another interesting theme, rendered less explicitly, is the connection between the interlocked oppression of nonhuman animals by humans and women by men. For instance, an advertisement on the side of a truck packed with hogs for slaughter parked at the Thorn Apple Valley Slaughterhouse in Detroit, Michigan shows dancing pigs in skirts and reads GO GO GIRL EXPRESS. This sexualization of animals for slaughter and the meatification of women for sex is everpresent.
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Summary: Pathetic
Review: I can't say the word demagogue enough...an absolutely awful book that reads more like a political manifesto than a non-fiction work. I use the term non-fiction loosly.
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Summary: Polemic by artist with seriously warped view of life
Review: I purchased this book because I like deviant art, but this one goes beyond deviant..it's just crazed and illogical. I'd like to state for the record that I have personally killed and helped gut hundreds of chickens. When you are hungry and dealing with the processing of a winter food supply, sentimentality is a luxury you can ill afford. I did not believe then nor do I believe now that chicken killers are "Nazis" perpetuating a holocaust. Sue Coe exaggerates the grim reality of farm animal slaughter, taking it to grotesque extremes. By attributing human-like emotions to the animals, she tries to get her audience to identify with the victims and respond with pity. Her portrayal is more melodramatic than accurate. In fact Sue Coe, like many animal activists, exhibits an almost unhealthy obsession with pain, death, blood, and torture. The animal rights purity trip allows these gothic animal rights types to guiltlessly wallow in their perversions in the name of a "good" cause. I don't have any problems with kinky art per se but Sue Coe just goes over the top with her sanctimonious go-veg shock tactics. While some of the drawings are strictly representational most of them seem self-indulgent and just plain nuts at times. It's actually a valuable book for the non-believer trying to understand the animal rights mentality, that's why I am giving it two stars. Perhaps Sue Coe reveals more of that mentality than she really intended. If I was a parent who found this book in a pre teen's room, I'd be seriously concerned. Sue Coe is definitely not for everyone.
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Summary: Polemic by artist with seriously warped view of life
Review: I purchased this book because I like deviant art, but this one goes beyond deviant..it's just crazed and illogical. I'd like to state for the record that I have personally killed and helped gut hundreds of chickens. When you are hungry and dealing with the processing of a winter food supply, sentimentality is a luxury you can ill afford. I did not believe then nor do I believe now that chicken killers are "Nazis" perpetuating a holocaust. Sue Coe exaggerates the grim reality of farm animal slaughter, taking it to grotesque extremes. By attributing human-like emotions to the animals, she tries to get her audience to identify with the victims and respond with pity. Her portrayal is more melodramatic than accurate. In fact Sue Coe, like many animal activists, exhibits an almost unhealthy obsession with pain, death, blood, and torture. The animal rights purity trip allows these gothic animal rights types to guiltlessly wallow in their perversions in the name of a "good" cause. I don't have any problems with kinky art per se but Sue Coe just goes over the top with her sanctimonious go-veg shock tactics. While some of the drawings are strictly representational most of them seem self-indulgent and just plain nuts at times. It's actually a valuable book for the non-believer trying to understand the animal rights mentality, that's why I am giving it two stars. Perhaps Sue Coe reveals more of that mentality than she really intended. If I was a parent who found this book in a pre teen's room, I'd be seriously concerned. Sue Coe is definitely not for everyone.
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Summary: Animal lovers unite.
Review: I received this book as a gift yesterday and stayed up all night reading it and finished it. Luckily, I did not have any nightmares about animals being treated in the way in which Sue Coe describes and paints in this revealing book. I recommend this book to the world; everyone should be aware of the way we treat animals, from pumping them with chemicals and slaughtering them with a knife as they hang from a back foot, to eating them on our dinner tables. The people of the world need to have this information so that they can consciously make a decision about how they can change their contibution regarding these crimes which occur on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis in every part of the world.
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Summary: Truth is more shocking than fiction
Review: I received this book as a gift yesterday and stayed up all night reading it and finished it. Luckily, I did not have any nightmares about animals being treated in the way in which Sue Coe describes and paints in this revealing book. I recommend this book to the world; everyone should be aware of the way we treat animals, from pumping them with chemicals and slaughtering them with a knife as they hang from a back foot, to eating them on our dinner tables. The people of the world need to have this information so that they can consciously make a decision about how they can change their contibution regarding these crimes which occur on a daily, hourly, minute by minute basis in every part of the world.
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Summary: Animal lovers unite.
Review: If you are passionate about animals, you must read this book. The drawings alone tell the story. The introduction is very educational and will enlighten you. This book is very informative in the body and the drawings and a must read for anyone. It explains the horror that goes on in the slaughterhouses and even gives you a tour through them. I learned more from this book than any other in my personal library on this subject.
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Summary: Haunting Pictures
Review: Some of the pictures in this book will stay with you for a long time, some may even make meat-eaters turn vegetarian. But, even more so than the pictures, the description of the horror of factory farms - to the animals and the workers - will disgust anyone with a heart.
I reccommend this book to longtime vegetarians, new vegetarians, and also to people who are just interested in maybe trying vegetarianism.
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Summary: meet your meat
Review: Sue Coe's daring and disturbing voyages through the average day in the lives of the people and animals involved in the factory farming industry. This is the book that converted me to Veganism. Though I am wary about drawing comparisons to the Holocaust, Sue Coe exposes the primitive, barbaribaric and ignorant side of 'civilized' human society that made the Holocaust to happen, the very same side of human nature that minute by minute allows the systematic torture, neglect and abuse of rights of sentient beings to go on, in secrect, out of sight of our dinner tables. The hellish world of factory farming is graphically exposed by first hand accounts and dark drawings. To her credit Coe's accounts in the main remain focused and unsentimental, though one wonders how, with the things she witnessed, when her drawings alone are enough to get inside your head. This book should be categorised under 'Educational' and should be used as a text book in schools. Meat eaters, I challenge you not to defend your guilt in ignorance, educate yourselves, read this book.
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Summary: Murder of the masses
Review: The first time I saw this book was in a book store. There I sat on the floor and flipped through the pages with a licked thumb in horror. This book brought me to tears, right then and there under the glow of the fluorescent lights. My mouth dropped open, and an icy chill ran up my spine. After putting down the book with my shivering hands, I walked right up to the first person I saw with tears streaming down my face, and said "Don't ever eat meat again you murderer!"
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