Breaking News: People are Scum

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September 7, 2008 *Breaking News: People are Scum*Filed under: Miscellaneous

— FoodEater @ 8:42 pm I promise that my food blog will not turn into an

animal blog. However this story I just came across about live *pigs which

have been tattooed with Louis Vuitton logos as art* so sickens me that I

just had to bring it to the attention of sympathetic eyes and ears.

 

So, the Laist.com pointed me to the Shanghaiist.com, reporting about these

pigs to be on exhibition at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair.

Shanghaidaily.com says:

 

" The tattooed pigs, two of them with Louis Vuitton logos, will form part of

an exhibit titled " Art Farm " by 43-year-old Belgian conceptual artist Wim

Delvoye. Delvoye had tattooed the designs on the animals when they were

piglets and tracked the " canvases " as they grew.

 

The stage is now set for these unique exhibits in Shanghai. A large pigsty

will be set up at the fountain square of Shanghai Exhibition Center, where

the eight pigs will be put up for display.

 

Delvoye brought the pigs from Europe and has kept them in a farm near

Beijing. They were displayed at a Beijing art show, triggering widespread

concern and controversy. The live pigs will not be sold now since they are

" artistic works, " but their skin could be auctioned at a high price after

the pigs' death. "

 

*Eastday.com is reporting that the show has been canceled*. I'm sure this

atrocity exhibit will soon find itself another home though, and more morons

will go stand in line and pay money to go see it. What is it about people

that brings them enjoyment from watching animals either deliberately hurt

like these pigs, or humiliated and pushed to extremes as in circuses, any

" sport " involving animals (horse and dog racing, rodeos, etc…), or jerks

like the other " artist " in Spain who put a stray starving dog on display as

art. It turned out later to be hoax, but only to the extent that the dog had

supposedly been fed and cared for during the exhibit, but no less messed up

in that once the show was over, the poor dog was simply discarded back out

onto the streets where they had nabbed him from in the first place. Or

Banksy and the elephant in the room. When did it become fun to make animals

suffer? Or at best, bore them to death?

 

It's all so gross. Our species has such a bizarre and disturbing obsession

with subjugating animals for fun and profit. It goes so much farther than

the food issue. I can understand why it's so difficult for people as a whole

to not grasp or accept the concept of vegetarianism. That's one thing… but

hurting, mutilating and forcing animals to do ridiculous things while people

stand around and watch (or gamble)… I just don't understand. I don't want to

ever understand.

 

Thank you for listening. Rant over, more food soon.

 

 

 

 

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