How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery becau…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals. ✨ “Flesh of your flesh” by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.
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