This is an example of "suicide food": a happy animal urging you to "kill me and eat me, please". As you can see from this site dedicated to suicide food, such images are quite common. I took the above photo several years ago here in Victoria, at the corner of Fort and Blanshard. The place used to be "The Cultured Cow", but is now a Starbucks (what else?). This photo (in black and white) has been used by Carol J. Adams in her book The Pornography of Meat. Adams is an ecofeminist who is interested in the way that women have culturally been linked with nature, and in particular with non-human animals. Her best known work is The Sexual Politics of Meat.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Suicide food
This is an example of "suicide food": a happy animal urging you to "kill me and eat me, please". As you can see from this site dedicated to suicide food, such images are quite common. I took the above photo several years ago here in Victoria, at the corner of Fort and Blanshard. The place used to be "The Cultured Cow", but is now a Starbucks (what else?). This photo (in black and white) has been used by Carol J. Adams in her book The Pornography of Meat. Adams is an ecofeminist who is interested in the way that women have culturally been linked with nature, and in particular with non-human animals. Her best known work is The Sexual Politics of Meat.
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