Andrew Bucksbarg on Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:31:39 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> A miniature city waiting for attack (military urbanism) |
On Aug 26, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Geoff Manaugh wrote: > - Fast set-up and disassembly... > - Various building sites configurations... > [and] > - Changeable interior room configurations" "Many people find the subject of animal slaughter to be very unpleasant and prefer not to know the details of what goes on inside a slaughterhouse. In their turn, most slaughterhouses are secretive to avoid controversy. As such, in the West, the connection between packaged meat products in the supermarket and the live animals they are derived from is obscured. Nevertheless, the majority of people in the West eat meat every day, so slaughterhouses are required to efficiently provide meat products on an industrial scale. At the same time, most countries have laws and regulations that control the slaughter of animals, both for human consumption and for other purposes. Therefore, the operation of slaughterhouses is usually independently monitored by government agencies, most especially to ensure that standards of hygiene are maintained. Animal rights groups and some vegetarians prefer to highlight the practices inside a slaughterhouse - in part to expose and correct allegedly inhumane treatment of animals where it occurs, but also to encourage people to face the reality of meat production, which may lead to more people's choosing a meat-free or reduced-meat diet. Some animal-rights advocates regard the activities performed in slaughterhouses as cruel or unconscionable." -Wikipediia --- Andrew Bucksbarg Assistant Professor of Telecommunications Abucksba@indiana.edu Organicode.net # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net