Wonderland Amusement Park Slaughter

Published October 02, 2009 @ 11:23AM PT

Yeah, you read that right: "amusement park" and "slaughter" in one phrase. I've just been introduced to the concept via TreeHugger, whose blogger writes,

Designboom shows us just about the coolest vertical farm yet, by Studio Tjep. Actually, it is much more than a farm; it is a restaurant and amusement park as well. It is designed to educate as well as produce; "The entire process is visible to the visitor, giving the complex a didactic function as to new agricultural developments."

Immediately following? A computer-generated image that shows cows and pigs wandering around on one level of the vertical structure, with what look to be hanging (bleeding-out) pigs dangling from the ceiling just one level up.

The design company's site gushes, "Oogst 1000 combines extreme fun with extreme usefulness. One can see this amusement park as a huge people processor. Hotel guests are also the farmers, when you work, you can stay for free."

Interesting word choice. Isn't "processor" the euphemism animal ag folks like to use for slaughterhouses? "Chicken processor," "beef processing plant," and so on? But in this world, apparently, "processor" is something fun and safe for humans, and killing animals has moved up to being part of an amusement park. I wonder, is participation in the killing one of the options for "extreme fun" and a free stay?

Creepy.

In more compassionate news, it's World Farm Animals Day (and Gandhi's birthday). So give veganism a test drive this weekend, won't you? There are countless recipes out there calling your name, including the ones rounded up weekly here.

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Posted by Tracy Habenicht on 10/02/2009 @ 11:35AM PT
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Wow. Although... I have a feeling that if such a place opened, where people could actually see their meat being butchered, it wouldn't last long. We all know how much omnivores are opposed to actually acknowledging how cruel the food on their plates are.

Posted by Ashley Wright on 10/02/2009 @ 12:11PM PT
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It looks like something straight out of a Miyazaki film! Which is entirely unrelated, of course, but I know Miyazaki would not stick in a functioning slaughterhouse.

*ahem* Okay. In any event, I fail to see how this is sustainable. It still requires taking crop food you could feed to humans and feeding it to animals. Cut out the middle man, just be vegan.

http://www.verticalfarm.com/ has some neat designs (there are a few with integrate exploiting animals, unfortunately).

While I do love the idea of vertical farming, the concept seems to imply there will come a time when we have no horizontal land for nature to exist. That is absolutely tragic.

(Selfishly, I admit to loving the idea of a pyramid full of green goodness in my backyard).

Posted by Animal Place on 10/02/2009 @ 12:27PM PT
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Disgusting.

Posted by Kim Johnson on 10/02/2009 @ 01:18PM PT
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Vertical farms, living walls, urban gardens and "rooftop agriculture" are all amazing future concepts. It's sad that some choose to (try) to integrate animals into such sophisticated systems.

My hunch is that as these become more feasible - "vat meat" will much more likely be part of the design than living beings. It's just that in the meantime most people have an impossible time trying to imagine their lives without "flesh".

My thoughts on a clean, healthy, sustainable future? "Leave the cow behind". :)

Posted by Bea Elliott on 10/04/2009 @ 06:39AM PT
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Staggering.

I just had a friend say to me that he would never let himself reach a point in his life where he'd be so desperate for a job that he'd work in a slaughterhouse. His exact words were "If I'm that poor that I have to work there, then I'd never be able to afford the therapy to recover from it."

Posted by Lisa Smolen on 10/04/2009 @ 07:24AM PT
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Not amusing at all. Just the word "amusement" park has me confused. I am not amused.

Our job service in town has 10 open jobs listed, and the top two were "butchering wild game" and "meat cutter". There was also "ranch hand", which leaves 7 job openings that do not deal directly with the slaughter or meat business.

That's right, seven. The search narrows even more if you choose not to cook or serve meat at a restaurant, or work at a Deli counter cutting up the slaughtered animals. As for the few jobs that do not work with the meat directly, your other option is to work at a business that supports the local rodeos, circus, and ranches.

Slim pickins. Yes, we have an animal shelter, but they are huge supporters of the meat industry as long as they get money to help the dogs and cats. They serve meat dishes at all of their events and don't offer a vegan choice. Ever. They are only helping dogs and cats. Other animals are products, and although I like that they help the "pets" in the area, they are not a no-kill shelter at all.

I'm not desperate enough to kill in order to be employed full time again. There are always other ways.

Posted by Michele McCowan on 10/04/2009 @ 12:48PM PT
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Wow.......what's next? I shutter to think. :-(

Posted by Kathy Jackson on 10/05/2009 @ 12:03PM PT
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No surprises that this comes via TreeHugger. Yet another glaring example of their ridiculous hypocrisy.

Posted by Amy Aversa on 10/08/2009 @ 03:59PM PT
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This is horrible. I am speechless.... Eliza

Posted by ELIZA CLASS on 10/09/2009 @ 08:30PM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.