on pigs, slaughterhouses and the ground on which we kill: P's pigs, Vineland, AtD....

[rich]

brings to mind the Georges Franju doc on Paris slaughterhouses (horses
is what I remember) that came with the Eyes Without a Face DVD (a
great movie if you haven't seen it)

had to turn it off after a few minutes

re: native Americans

not forgetting the US gov't's/whites treatment of the American Indian
since colonization, I do question this idyllic view of them.  so
native americans lived upon that ground--no doubt there are tales of
atrocity between tribes before the puritans--slavery, murder,
rape--this noble view is just condescending and does not lend one's
view of the "natives" as other than two-dimensional (dances with
wolves syndrome) and strips them of a full-blooded humanity.

just 2 cents

rich

On 4/16/09, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> "I thought that nothing we humans do to pigs could upend me. Then Paden sent
> me a four-minute highlights clip of what the latest farm investigator had
> seen. Soon after I flicked it on, I began crying so uncontrollably that it
> took me an hour and a half to finish it.
>
> In this book, I do not recite the atrocities we perpetuate upon pigs.
> Instead, I discuss why we think it's okay to inflict them. And that
> discussion brings us to the study of history. [The slaughterhouse] rested on
> what were once the fields of a plantation . . . both slaughterhouse and
> plantation occupied ground upon which had strode, and likely lived, Native
> Americans."
>
> Steven Wise on his book An American Trilogy..............
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