This is up there with the most blatant misdirection in the annals of suicidefoodism. Sausages-to-be (known by decent folk as pigs) are driven to acts of affectionate nuzzling over the prospect of being transformed into food. It is as though the central fact of pig life—supplanting family bonds and even the satisfaction of the simplest desires—is their incipient sausageness.We are also treated to one of this sick philosophy's basest axioms: animals are indistinguishable from the food products exuberant processors will turn them into. Who but the dedicated suicidefoodist would illustrate the concept of sausage with illustrations of living, loving pigs?
Finally, do you have the feeling that you have seen these affectionate pigs somewhere else? You're not imagining things. Slovacek's pigsausages are based on an almost iconic image.
The last time we encountered it was on the cover of Jonathan Balcombe's Pleasurable Kingdom—a book examining the inner lives of animals. (Yes, the image was flipped horizontally somewhere along the line.)If this coincidence doesn't leave you stupefied, you're not paying attention.
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I THOUGHT those pigs looked familiar! Ugh. Can the PK folks demand that the sausage company stop using the image?
It figures that they wouldn't have any original creativity in them... too much sausage on the brain.
No they can't demand anything because the Photo was a courtesy of MacMillan Science Publishing. The book was not published until 2006. Slovacek's logo was created 1995. Please educate yourself before opening fire to a conversation you know little about.
Are you kidding me, ?! You people are ridiculous! Educate yourselves before you post such absurdity please!
Whatever - - - There may be errors on the dates of creation, origin, etc. But make no doubt... We here who speak for the animals and against their horrific abuses are "educated" enough to know that using slaves and killing sentinet beings, is about as ignorant and cruel as imaginable.
We never claimed that Slovacek's Sausage appropriated the image that appears on the cover of Peaceable Kingdom. We claimed that it is an image that is associated with the book. And that its appearance on behalf of the sausage-makers is a grotesque coincidence.
Suicidefoodism is hilarious, so is this logo and I ate some of the sausage tonight. It was incredible!
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