The Lives of Animals

“It is true that animals are usually not able to participate in their liberation, but they behave differently when they are liberated and have better living conditions.”
— Speaking Beyond Language: Lin May Saeed Interviewed

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Pit's Letter , 2000

Sue Coe

Artist Book , 18.42 x 0.64 x 18.42 cm

Sue Coe, Pit's Letter, 2000
Language: English
Published by Running Press
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1568581637

Like a latter-day Goya, Sue Coe is driven to create moral works, from stark renditions of slaughterhouse brutality to accounts of abused domestic animals and laboratory testing. In Pit's Letter, a hapless canine describes her desolate life to her only surviving sister. She recounts her puppyhood and upbringing in her human family, her heartless banishment, and finally her suffering and death at the hands of the experimenting scientists at Eden Biotechnology. Ironically, her former master winds up in the same situation: an accidental scratching infects him with a pathogen — and man and beast share the same fate.

This book is available in the reading room downstairs.

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