a short passage about killing

you will not see the blood, originally uploaded by chi kong.

From preparing the slaughtering ring (fill up enough water for washing, sharpen the knife), to selecting the lucky one and get her ready (tie her up and hang her from the ceiling) and - once her neck is cut and she struggles a little and finally stops moving - the butchering work (peel off the skin, cut off the head, seperate inner organs from the meat, clean up her intestine etc), you need at least five tough guys to kill a cow in the "traditional way". It is a laborious task, but skilled butchers do it very quickly. From the moment you see the light of the morning sun to the moment you start feeling the warmth, it's all done. While to kill a chicken you need only two not so tough guys. One will grab her on the wings with one hand and on her head with the other, show the neck to his partner for a quick cut and dump her into the big bucket beside and let her bleed, before she is thrown into some machine to be stripped off. As simple as that you do not even need to blink twice. Fish is the simplest of all. They are killed when they leave the water. The fisherman do not need to do a thing (to kill the fish).

Thank these people for doing all these stuffs for us. We do not need to be responsible for what we eat. They are taken care of. We didn't kill them, somebody did.
p/s: this is a tribute to Kielowski's A Short Film About Killing.