Animals to Slaughter

"Red pill or blue pill? Take the blue pill the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." (The Matrix – 1999) Karl, the main character of this story, accompanies the reader like a new White Rabbit on a voyage of discovery of what fate awaits thousands of animals every second of every day. A fate that can only be understood by changing our viewing point, and by beginning to ask ourselves who did the piece of meat on our plates use to belong to. What did this animal go through when it was killed? How much pain did this pretty fur collar on my overcoat cost? In other words, how would we feel if the Animals to Slaughter were literally ourselves? Karl's loss of innocence starts during his childhood and follows him for the rest of his life on a ruthless path of atonement for a deranged humanity devoid of empathy for other living species. A physically painful story like the main character's past, and shocking as the most cruel revelations can be, the ones which reveal to us that to see reality for what it actually is, we simply have to open our eyes. (Rita Ciatti)

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