Quotes Concerning Slaughter

(4 Quotations)

• Karen Davis, PhD (Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs; 1996) – "The human commitment to harmony, justice, peace, and love is ironic as long as we continue to support the suffering and shame of the slaughterhouse and its satellite operations."

• Richard Rhodes (Author, 1988 Pulitzer Prize recipient) - "Before they reach their end, the pigs get a shower, a real one. Water sprays from every angle to wash the farm off them. Then they begin to feel crowded. The pen narrows like a funnel' the drivers behind urge the pigs forward, until one at a time they climb onto the moving ramp... Now they scream, never having been on such a ramp, smelling the smells they smell ahead. I do not want to over dramatize because you've read all this before. But it was a frightening experience, seeing their fear, seeing so many of them go by, it had to remind me of things no one wants to be reminded of anymore, all mobs, all death marches, all mass murders and executions ... "

• Richard Selzer – "[The slaughterhouse] carries out its business in secret and decides what you will see, hides from you what it chooses."

• Upton Sinclair (The Jungle) – "One could not stand and watch [the slaughterhouses] very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal of the universe."