Quotes about slaughterhouse (12 Quotes)


    Though the industrial logic that made feeding cattle to cattle seem like a good idea has been thrown into doubt by mad cow disease, I was surprised to learn it hadn't been discarded. The FDA ban on feeding ruminant protein to ruminants makes an exception for blood products and fat; my steer will probably dine on beef tallow recycled from the very slaughterhouse he's heading to in June.

    Jump way back to one time, Evie and me did this fashion shoot in a junk yard, in a slaughterhouse, in a mortuary. We'd go anywhere to look good by comparison, and what I realize is mostly what I hate about Evie is the fact that she's so vain and stupid and needy. But what I hate most is how she's just like me. What I really hate is me so I hate pretty much everybody.

    Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.


    Kosher means clean. Kosher meat is butchered in a very special way so that the animal doesn't suffer. We have to know the slaughterhouse and the herd. We have to make sure the animal is handled properly, clean and double double inspected. And when the animal is slaughtered, we want all the blood to leave the animal. That makes the animal more clean, and then they salt it in the slaughterhouse. It's kind of salty, and it's kind of good even though it's not that healthy.





    Then let us sail across the sea, and here and there found a young Germany, let us fructify it with the products of our toil and striving, and let us beget and bring up the noblest and most godlike children but let us do better than the Spanish, who turned the New World into a papal slaughterhouse, and better than the English, who have turned it into a shop.


    I think he'd be able to play there under the old rules too. I'm not sure he'd last through 60 minutes. But he's got more guts than a slaughterhouse.




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