BioArt : "The Victimless Meat" - Blog 1
Well, we can all talk about how crazy this seems but in reality, people are killing, people are manipulating, using innocent animals for their own pleasure or gain. This is not right. It is unethical and moral to treat these animals as nothing, using them at our own will. Can you imagine yourself as an animal, and perhaps having someone working on you in a lab, growing perhaps a human ear on your back? It’s absurd. In my opinion, this so called bioart shouldn’t even be considered art but “shameless science”. The fact that these animals can’t do a damn thing about it is saddening. Their defenceless and is made as entertainment values for humans rather then being considered life, just like you and me. With the technology swiftly moving along, humans want more and more. They want things to be faster, easier, less time consuming, more relaxing and the list goes on. We tend to forget about the basics. Without animals, we would starve yet we don’t appreciate, but display them as “art”. Having said all this, it’s a cruel thing to do and we should stop exploiting what we have before it’s too late.
5 Comments:
Hi Jonathan,
This is good, but Catts and Ortz don't use living animals in their work, but rather cells from umbilical cords. So, they are not killing animals.
Ms. Largo
I agree with what you are saying. I would never consider this as art at all. It is totally unacceptable in my standards. I also do not see the purpose of doing this at all. It is so pointless.
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I agree that animals should not be subject to human cruelty and thoughtlessness.
To comment on Ms. Largo's comment...aren't living cells still a form of life, even though maybe not as obvious? Similar to plants, just because they don't bleed or scream when they are chopped down, aren't they forms of life, just like humans?
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