Dead Meat | 
 enlarge | Author: Sue Coe
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 113784
Media: Paperback
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.5
ISBN: 156858041X
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.2
EAN: 9781568580418
ASIN: 156858041X
Publication Date: February 23, 1996
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Amazon.com Review
British artist Sue Coe is well known for her social and political paintings and illustrations, which appear regularly in such publications as the New York Times and the New Yorker. Her latest effort is the disturbing book Dead Meat, a visual record of Coe's visits to 40 slaughterhouses, cattle ranches, and hatcheries to document the grisly practices of the meat-packing industry. Although she was not allowed to photograph on the premises, she was permitted to draw and sketch, and much of this work is jarringly graphic. Incorporated with the artwork are her thoughts and observations laid out in diary form. Even if you don't agree with Coe's politics, this is social and political art at its most powerful, in the tradition of Goya, Daumier, and Rockwell Kent.
Product Description
A nationally prominent, politically oriented artist offers an unsparingly critical view of the meat industry in scores of illustrations, documenting the skewing, flaying, dismembering, castrating, debeaking, electrocuting, and decapitating of animals. Simultaneous. IP.
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 Animal Abuse and Art May 30, 2005
Cherry (Chicago, IL United States)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This book comes from someone with an animal rights background and a background in the arts as well. The images are so well done,perfectly disturbing and the stories,truthful and profound. A great read for anyone that wants to know the truth behind the industry.
 Polemic by artist with seriously warped view of life February 16, 2004
Afan of Sitagyl Manor (Brooklyn, New York United States)
6 out of 55 found this review helpful
I purchased this book because I like deviant art, but this one goes beyond deviant..it's just crazed and illogical. I'd like to state for the record that I have personally killed and helped gut hundreds of chickens. When you are hungry and dealing with the processing of a winter food supply, sentimentality is a luxury you can ill afford. I did not believe then nor do I believe now that chicken killers are "Nazis" perpetuating a holocaust. Sue Coe exaggerates the grim reality of farm animal slaughter, taking it to grotesque extremes. By attributing human-like emotions to the animals, she tries to get her audience to identify with the victims and respond with pity. Her portrayal is more melodramatic than accurate. In fact Sue Coe, like many animal activists, exhibits an almost unhealthy obsession with pain, death, blood, and torture. The animal rights purity trip allows these gothic animal rights types to guiltlessly wallow in their perversions in the name of a "good" cause. I don't have any problems with kinky art per se but Sue Coe just goes over the top with her sanctimonious go-veg shock tactics. While some of the drawings are strictly representational most of them seem self-indulgent and just plain nuts at times. It's actually a valuable book for the non-believer trying to understand the animal rights mentality, that's why I am giving it two stars. Perhaps Sue Coe reveals more of that mentality than she really intended. If I was a parent who found this book in a pre teen's room, I'd be seriously concerned. Sue Coe is definitely not for everyone.
meet your meat November 17, 2003
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Sue Coe's daring and disturbing voyages through the average day in the lives of the people and animals involved in the factory farming industry. This is the book that converted me to Veganism. Though I am wary about drawing comparisons to the Holocaust, Sue Coe exposes the primitive, barbaribaric and ignorant side of 'civilized' human society that made the Holocaust to happen, the very same side of human nature that minute by minute allows the systematic torture, neglect and abuse of rights of sentient beings to go on, in secrect, out of sight of our dinner tables. The hellish world of factory farming is graphically exposed by first hand accounts and dark drawings. To her credit Coe's accounts in the main remain focused and unsentimental, though one wonders how, with the things she witnessed, when her drawings alone are enough to get inside your head. This book should be categorised under 'Educational' and should be used as a text book in schools. Meat eaters, I challenge you not to defend your guilt in ignorance, educate yourselves, read this book.
Haunting Pictures December 4, 2001
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
Some of the pictures in this book will stay with you for a long time, some may even make meat-eaters turn vegetarian. But, even more so than the pictures, the description of the horror of factory farms - to the animals and the workers - will disgust anyone with a heart.
I reccommend this book to longtime vegetarians, new vegetarians, and also to people who are just interested in maybe trying vegetarianism.
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Animal lovers unite. July 9, 2001
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you are passionate about animals, you must read this book. The drawings alone tell the story. The introduction is very educational and will enlighten you. This book is very informative in the body and the drawings and a must read for anyone. It explains the horror that goes on in the slaughterhouses and even gives you a tour through them. I learned more from this book than any other in my personal library on this subject.
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