Pig meets murderer

This is a drawing inspired by my personal experiences watching and showing video footage of animal slaughter, and noting the reactions of passersby (who generally try their best not to look at such things). The text in "petting zoo" reads: "If you love the animals called pets, why do you eat the animals called dinner?" It's a pretty confrontational image... I feel a bit bad that the girl with the bloody ham sandwich is my little sister (who is actually a vegan ^_^), but I needed a model.

I think I was feeling pretty bitter when I made this drawing. I've seen abused farm animals firsthand, as well as corpses of factory farmed animals who died in gruesome and agonizing ways, and it never ceases to sadden and infuriate me. It especially galls me when people laugh off the issue as unimportant, but I've learned through my association with the local Amnesty chapter that it's the same way with human rights. We had a cage demonstration to draw some attention to the plights of political prisoners who'd been locked away and tortured for daring to exercise the right to free speech (er... correct that. In their respective countries they don't have free speech. They dared to publish views advocating free speech and democracy) I'd hoped that passersby who laughed at animal suffering might take a moment to sign a petition to alleviate human suffering... But, though we did get a lot of signatures, we also got our fair share of hecklers. It really makes me wonder...