Animal Factories: On the Killing Floor

Revenge of the Swine by Sue Coe.

All illustrations by Sue Coe.

“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

– Theodor Adorno

I grew up south of Indianapolis on the glacier-smoothed plains of central Indiana. My grandparents owned a small farm, whittled down over the years to about 40 acres of bottomland, in some of the most productive agricultural land in America. Like many of their neighbors they mostly grew field corn (and later soybeans)...