TITLE:
Dead Meat
AUTHOR:
Sue Coe
PUBLISHER:
Four Walls Eight Windows
39 West 14th Street, Room 503
New York, New York 10011
Website: http://www.fourwallseightwindows.com
Email: Orders@fourwallseightwindows.com
ISBN #:
1-56858-041-X
RETAIL PRICE:
$22.00 U.S.A.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Armed with her sketchbook, Sue Coe traveled across the United States,
following the path from factory farm to feedlot, to the "killing floor" of
slaughterhouse. Her firsthand observations are rendered in her diaries
and
artwork -- stunning, unforgettable images.
Dead Meat graphically documents the castrations, debeakings, electrocutions,
and decapitations; the skewing, flaying, and dismembering; the pathos and
tragedy. Coe made eye contact with a frightened veal calf awaiting
execution
and talked to the people who commit the sanctioned killing that supplies
our
meat-eating culture.
Her illustrations evoke the dark, cavernous abattoir, slippery with blood,
steam, and body heat. Workers wielding knives and stun guns slave in
dangerous conditions, dehumanized by the brutality of their jobs, alienated
by economic oppression. Like Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Dead Meat
indicts
the system of corruption and consumption that exacts such a toll from its
citizens.
"Coe's dark and sinewy figures.....bring to mind goya and daumier.
Her blunt
pictures clear your moral sinuses like ammonia."
~ Newsweek
"A fascinating and revealing portrait of the institutions behind the meat
we
eat....Coe's illustrations.....have the sharply lined, affecting realism
of a
Diego Rivera mural.
Dead Meat will appeal not just to those interested in animal rights, but
to
anyone who cares about how society functions."
~ Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Born in England and educated at the Royal College of Art in London, Sue Coe
moved to New York in 1972. She regularly contributes illustrations
to the
New York Times, the New Yorker, the Nation, and Entertainment Weekly.
Her
most recent solo exhibition was at the Hirshhorn Museum, National Gallery
of
Art, Washing D.C. in 1994. Alexander Cockburn is one of America's premier
radical journalists. He writes regularly for the Nation, co-edits the
newsletter CounterPunch, and is a nationally syndicated columnist.
Cockburn published The Golden Age Is in Us in 1995. Washington Babylon
and a
collection of environmental writing will appear in 1996. Tom Regan
is
president of the Culture and Animals Foundation.
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