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“In the early 1970’s I visited a slaughterhouse. They wouldn’t let me on to the kill floor, but I got to visit the storage areas. And I saw piles of hoofs and skins, hearts, livers and skulls, bearing solemn testimony to the living, feeling sentient beings who were no more. It was an unreal deja vu all over again. I tried to reject it as a coincidence. But the parallels with my memory of Treblinka were overwhelming. The use of cattle cars to transport my family to their deaths, the crowded housing in wood crates, the deception, the piling of bodies in pits, and the emotional detachment of the perpetrators. Then I saw the quote from my literary hero and 1973 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the dreaded comparison started making perfect sense: “To the animals, all people are Nazis. To the animals, all life is an eternal Treblinka.” You dont want to miss this amazing Ask Me Anything reddit thread with Holocasust survivor and Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) founder and president, Alex Hershaft
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 21:58:07 +0000

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