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Elizabeth Poole - Sculpture

May 25th to June 24th, 2012

Liz Poole 2012

Artist statement

in creating this exhibition my aim has been to look at and help raise awareness of animal suffering – most specifically the human cruelty to those Raised in factory farms to provide food and wealth for us –

animals are our fellow creatures – inferior to us in several important ways – but also superior to us in others – for instance their sensitivity to the natural environment. this recognition implicitly refutes the arrogance of speciesism, and the view that we have an absolute right to dispose of other species as we see fit, because our own is the most intellectually developed

I suggest we all ask ourselves :

  – not ‘can they reason?’
   – Nor, ‘can they talk?’ but
    – ‘can they suffer?’
    … and then “is it really necessary?”

anyone who has ever had the pleasure of living with an animal will surely have recognised that all animals do feel joy, pain and fear.

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