Farmer John's Meat Packing Plant, Worker Waits for Bus, 1988
Watercolor and graphite on off-white Strathmore Bristol board
30 x 22 1/8 in (76.2 x 56.2 cm)
© Sue Coe
I find that people in this type of work want to talk about what they do. They want to debate it, they are mostly alienated from it, they become automatons....
I find that people in this type of work want to talk about what they do. They want to debate it, they are mostly alienated from it, they become automatons. The slaughter industry is not different from any other. It steals the workers' labor, for little pay, and in the end there is blood money. From owner of meat packing plants I got justification, "We feed the world," "create jobs," etc.
-Sue Coe, interview with Dianne Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, issue #39, May 1999
-Sue Coe, interview with Dianne Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, issue #39, May 1999
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Sue Coe, Dead Meat, 1996, p. 861
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