A French novelist explores the inhumanity of factory farming
Marina Bolotnikova
Feb 9, 2020
7:00 AM
No one wants to face the reality of factory farming: billions of animals, hidden away in warehouses, who live and die in constant pain, confinement and abuse. The more you look at it, the less sense it makes, the more incomprehensible it is that we have allowed it to happen. “Animalia,” the newly translated novel by French author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, doesn’t make the madness of industrial animal agriculture comprehensible, exactly, but it does render it more clearly....
Marina Bolotnikova
Feb 9, 2020
7:00 AM
No one wants to face the reality of factory farming: billions of animals, hidden away in warehouses, who live and die in constant pain, confinement and abuse. The more you look at it, the less sense it makes, the more incomprehensible it is that we have allowed it to happen. “Animalia,” the newly translated novel by French author Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, doesn’t make the madness of industrial animal agriculture comprehensible, exactly, but it does render it more clearly....
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