Aftermath
Ontario, Canada
Looking into the eyes of animals arriving at a slaughterhouse and then witnessing their discarded body parts leaving the building offers just a glimpse into what takes place behind its windowless walls—and a reminder of the violence embedded within our food system.
Our most frightening horror films and stories often use slaughterhouses and butchers to represent fear, terror and violence -- when humans are the victims. Yet every day, we make food choices that impose that same terrifying, real-life experience onto billions of other sentient beings, while turning our eyes away from their suffering.
Blood leaks from the hatch of a truck leaving the slaughterhouse.
Crushed jaw bones scatter the street in front of the slaughterhouse. Pedestrians seems unfazed.
A worker carries the skinned head of a recently killed cow across the street.
A worker tries to hide the heads of cows from the camera outside of the slaughterhouse.
A worker pokes at body parts overflowing a massive dump truck outside of the slaughterhouse.
A scull and bones of just killed cows on the sidewalk near the slaughterhouse.
Seagulls feed on the disposed flesh and bones of cows recently killed outside of the slaughterhouse.
A dump truck overflowing with disposed body parts at slaughterhouse.
A truck filled with living cows arrives at the slaughterhouse, stopping beside the massive dump truck filled with deposed body parts of those who came before them.
A scull and bones of just killed cows on the sidewalk near the slaughterhouse.
A massive dump truck overflows with unused body parts of just killed cows outside of the slaughterhouse.
A scull of a just killed cow on the sidewalk near the slaughterhouse.
A scull of a just killed cow on the sidewalk near the slaughterhouse.
A worker throws bits of flesh into the massive dump truck that overflows with unused body parts of just killed cows outside of the slaughterhouse.
Skulls of just killed cows in a dump truck outside of the slaughterhouse seem to look up at the free bird.
Skulls of just killed cows in a dump truck outside of the slaughterhouse
A skull of just killed cow on the road near the slaughterhouse.
A worker washes blood down the city drain at the slaughterhouse while cow heads scatter the ground in the background.