Wonderland Amusement Park Slaughter

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-10-02 11:23:00 UTC
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Yeah, you read that right: "amusement park" and "slaughter" in one phrase. I've just been introduced to the concept via TreeHugger, whose blogger writes,

Designboom shows us just about the coolest vertical farm yet, by Studio Tjep. Actually, it is much more than a farm; it is a restaurant and amusement park as well. It is designed to educate as well as produce; "The entire process is visible to the visitor, giving the complex a didactic function as to new agricultural developments."

Immediately following? A computer-generated image that shows cows and pigs wandering around on one level of the vertical structure, with what look to be hanging (bleeding-out) pigs dangling from the ceiling just one level up.

The design company's site gushes, "Oogst 1000 combines extreme fun with extreme usefulness. One can see this amusement park as a huge people processor. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free."

Interesting word choice. Isn't "processor" the euphemism animal ag folks like to use for slaughterhouses? "Chicken processor," "beef processing plant," and so on? But in this world, apparently, "processor" is something fun and safe for humans, and killing animals has moved up to being part of an amusement park. I wonder, is participation in the killing one of the options for "extreme fun" and a free stay?

Creepy.

In more compassionate news, it's World Farm Animals Day (and Gandhi's birthday). So give veganism a test drive this weekend, won't you? There are countless recipes out there calling your name, including the ones rounded up weekly here.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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