> There is a great book from Sue Coe, the radical artist, on the meat
>packing plants, that depicts the (almost said dehumanization!) brutality to
>both the cattle, pigs and chickens, and the human workers, mostly Central
>American and Mexican living in Nebraska and Iowa (hopefuly the UFCW is
>making inroads, read a good piece on this in all places, US News & World
>Report a whille ago).
> And last night found an article in German, on a debate between Singer
and
>Peter Sloterdijk. Anyone (maybe Johannes) wanna translate?
> Michael Pugliese
>
>
*Dead Meat* by Sue Coe, including an essay by Alex Coeburn, "A Short,
Meat-Oriented History of the World from Eden to the Mattole." Here's a
selection from the essay:
Nazi leaders were noted for love of their pets and for certain animals, notably apex predators like the wolf and the lion. Hitler, a vegetarian and hater of hunting, adored dogs and spent some of his final hours in the company of Blondi, whom he would take for walks outside the bunker at some danger to himself. He had a particular enthusiasm for birds and most of all for wolves. His cover name was Herr Wolf. Many of his interim headquarters had "Wolf" as a prefix, as in Wolfschanze in East Prussia, of which Hitler said "I am the wolf and this is my den." He also liked to whistle the tune of "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" from Walt Disney's movie of the Depression, about the Three Little Pigs. [...] A maharaja gave Hitler films that displayed animals killing people. The Fuehrer watched with equanimity. Another film showed humans killing animals. Hitler covered his eyes and begged to be told when the slaughter was over. [...] Central to this equation was the composer Richard Wagner, an ardent vegetarian who urged attacks on laboratories and physical assault on vivisectionists, whom he associated with Jews (presumably because of kosher killing methods). Identifying vivisectors as the enemy, Wagner wrote that vivisection of frogs was "the curse of our civilization." Those who failed to untruss and liberate frogs were "enemies of the state"... He believed the purity of Aryans had been compromised by meat-eating and mixing of the races. A nonmeat diet plus the Eucharist would engender a return to the original uncorrupted state of affairs... The Nazis abolished moral distinctions between animals and people by viewing people as animals. The result was that animals could be considered higher than some people. [...] Aryans and animals were allied in a struggle against the contaminators, the vivisectors, the undercreatures.
Ted