YOU
… are seen. Today marks the day that I will never forget for the rest of my life, and the day that my friends didn’t see another tomorrow.
On that day two years ago, four people and I got access to a smaller slaughterhouse in Austria to bear witness to pig individuals. I would have never thought I’d once be standing in a horrific and terrifying place like that, documenting what’s happening behind closed doors.
Everything we experienced that night, the facts, the feelings, the smells and conversations we had, and all the flashing moments I intensely remember seem absolutely unreal, yet they sit solidly in every single cell of my body. Screaming—screaming for it all to stop, right now!
Just thinking about it triggers an immediate feeling of desperation and distress because it reminds me of the personalities I had the privilege to know for a few short hours before their lives were forcefully ended unimaginably horrifying. It reminds me of everything that is wrong with this world.
These beautiful beings didn’t do anything wrong—ever. They have simply been born a species that is worth nothing in the eyes of many.
After two years, I still struggle to find the ‘right’ words. I know there aren’t any, because what has happened that night and what continues to happen each second of each day is just wrong. Still, I am trying to find words to make you understand. Do you understand?
What more does it take?
📷 @rauschbild_
… I will never forget that silence after the killing. It was …
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