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* Agriculture is now a mechanized food industry, in essence the same as the manufacture of corpses in the gas chambers and death camps, the same thing as the blockades and reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. — Martin Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays" (1977)
* Before they reach their end, the pigs get a shower, a real one. Water sprays from every angle to wash the farm off them. Then they begin to feel crowded. The pen narrows like a funnel, the drivers behind urge the pigs forward, until one at a time they climb onto the moving ramp. ... Now they scream, never having been on such a ramp, smelling the smells they smell ahead. I do not want to overdramatize because you’ve read all this before. But it was a frightening experience, seeing their fear, seeing so many of them go by, it had to remind me of things no one wants to be reminded of anymore, all mobs, all death marches, all mass murders and executions ... — Richard Rhodes