Analytical Essay If I Were An Animal Would You Eat...

HLTC50 Assignment 2, Analytical Essay on Prompt 2: â€Å"If I Were an Animal, Would You Eat Me?† There is a common English idiom: â€Å"A picture speaks a thousand words.† Art is a powerful tool that can cross cultural barriers and connect strangers without speaking a word. It can also make us question about our society and see the world with different eyes – including the eyes of another species. Paintings are influential in raising awareness of the social problems regarding the human-animal interface by allowing us to be alert to human conditions and be critical on our definition of morality and what makes us human. A painting by Sue Coe illustrates the disturbing reality of animal farming by comparing it with human enslavement. Her provocative†¦show more content†¦Sue Coe brilliantly painted a connection between human and non-human and questioned about the boundaries that separates the human from the animal. The pig is being dragged away by the two men, but shown to be standing on her two feet. In the study of biology and evolution, humans (specifically Homo sapiens) are identified and separated from other species by having bipedal locomotion. In other words, they are capable of standing and walking upright on their two feet. Thus interestingly Sue Coe broke the barrier by giving a humanistic personification to the pig by making her stand vertically between the butchers. It gives uncomfortable thoughts on what if the butcher was holding onto the arms of a human in this particular situation? Undeniably, the audience is tackled with problem on morality. Through the approach of using anthropomorphism on the farm animal, Sue Coe was able to create empathy between the individual and the pig. The personification of the pig challenges the person to revaluate their identity as a human and pounder what makes the human different from the non-human. How would we react if there was human farming in the place of an animal slaughterhouse? Similarly to Sue Coe’s method of giving personhood to the pig, Sunaura Taylor uses painting to display the opposite to when a human becomes a farm animal. Particularly to the painting called â€Å"Self-Portrait Marching with Chickens† Taylor submerges herself into the field and uses her body to re-enacts the