Views and Reviews

Maybe Patty Osborne, who reviewed Canada in the Rough (Geist 62), should visit a slaughterhouse and take lots of pictures of how they kill the animals she eats. The farmer’s little calf, raised by a child and now maybe has grown to an adult with the big brown eyes, paraded into a room and shot in the head with a ramset a couple of times before it goes down. Or a hog hooked up to a chain by the back leg and hoisted up, then having its throat cut and getting deposited, still alive, into a tank of boiling water. Or maybe watch and take pictures of a lamb being hit on the head with a ballpeen hammer five or six times before it falls. Give hunters the right to harvest what they want to eat. They will also be the first people to help any endangered animal by rescuing it from a danger or helping in restocking programs. If you are a person who doesn’t wear leather coats or shoes, and doesn’t have leather chesterfields or leather car seats, and doesn’t eat meat, than you have a right to defend your choice. If you like spaghetti and meatballs, just think of those animals that went into your sauce.