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Animals Killed With Hammers in the name of "art"

by Jym Dyer
The San Francisco Art Institute is currently exhibiting an installation of videos of animals being killed with hammers.
"Don't Trust Me," a video installation by Adel Abdessemed, is currently being exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institute is being exhibited from March 19th through May 31st. The installation is of a six animals being killed with hammers.
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by art is subjective
perhaps the artist is attempting to juxtapose the horror, disgust, and outrage over a film of 6 animals being killed with the apathetic (daily) viewing of humans killed.
by Vegan
Perhaps this exhibit is actually a good thing. Maybe it'll get people to think about the routine, sanctioned violence (stuff like this exhibit happens every single day in any given slaughterhouse, factory farm, research lab, circus, fur farm...) inflicted upon animals for meat, dairy, and egg production, biomedical pseudo-research, et. al.--literally upwards of TEN BILLION sentient nonhumans every year in this country along. Go vegan, please.
by alan bamberger (alanb [at] artbusiness.com)
read more about it here: http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/031908.html
by SF Insider
What I wanna know is why hasn't the D.A. charged the artist with animal
cruelty?

Looks like multiple felonies have been committed by this "artist".
Where's anti-death penalty crusader and SF DA Kamala Harris
on these crimes?
by quack
this is fucking sick
by Michele
To Vegan, did he create this for the purpose of exposing what really happens in slaughter houses, or did he do this just to cause a stir and increase his Google search cred?
by tresa Black
Hey Michele....you sound like you are almost as big of a loser as the Adel scumbag. Too bad miserable, hateful people like you keep breeding.
Mistreating animals (smashing them in the head with a sledgehammer) is at the same disgusting level as child abuse. Figure it out.

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