Audience (2019) Schilderij door Scott Spencer

The painting will be shipped rolled in a tube. This is my Guernica, my Vegetarian Manifesto. It took me far too long to become an herbivore. I've eaten oodles of animals in my lifetime and am going to cut them some slack the rest of the way. In the back of my mind it never felt right. These poor, defenseless creatures don't stand a chance against us clever, cunning humans. I couldn't kill my own food and letting someone else do it for me doesn't feel right either. We are grocery store mafia, putting a hit on the next animal when we pull meat off the shelves. I'm going through my mid-life crisis and finally coming to the realization that humans are the most disruptive, controlling thing upon this wonderful Earth. We breed creatures for our consumption. The animals we don't eat we displace, domesticate and manipulate to our liking. We make sure humans keep procreating and we make sure other creatures don't make too many of themselves. What other living thing wants us around? We might have a symbiotic relationship with flowers and plants (they sometimes rely on us for water) but other than that, I can't think of anything that Homo sapiens doesn't just flat out exploit. Maybe if we were kinder to animals, we'd be nicer to each other.

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