Powerful Animal Rights Exhibition Is Set to Open in Brisbane
Posted on December 19th, 2016
by PETA Australia
Australian artist Jo Frederiks is about to open her latest exhibition, a bold and striking commentary on modern animal consumption titled The Animal Holocaust”.
Having grown up on a million-acre cattle station in central Queensland, Frederiks has always felt a strong connection to animals, and she uses mainly oil paints and graphite to draw attention to the way modern society and industry treat living beings.
The Animal Holocaust” will showcase over 50 of Frederiks’ paintings and 150 of her drawings, and 50 per cent of all sale proceeds will be donated to Farm Animal Rescue.
Why ‘Holocaust’?
In 1968, Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer had one of his fictional characters observe that to [animals], all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka” – and this comparison to the Holocaust is sometimes seen as controversial or even disrespectful.
But there’s an untold side to this story. Far from trivialising the experiences of the victims of the Nazis, the analogy originates in antiquity. For two millennia before the word Holocaust” was applied to the torture and murder of humans in World War II, it was used exclusively to refer to the mass murder of animals:
It is not animal rights people who have linked the death of animals and the death of [humans]. It is those who were appalled at the human carnage of Nazi Germany, who likened it to a holocaust – to the death of millions of animals.
– JR Hyland, Editor, Humane Religion
Used in the translation of biblical Hebrew scrolls as early as 250 BC, the term is taken from the Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστος, or holókaustos, meaning the total immolation of sacrificed animals.
For more information, visit JoFrederiks.com or check out Frederiks’ Facebook page.
December 22nd, 2016 at 4:11 pm
Concerned Citizens everywhere should get together to produce Soy and grain based meats that can rival real beef, chicken etc in texture and taste and HEALTH NEEDS.
The East has produced Soy milk, Tofu and dried Soy pieces. They can now go much further and make burghers and chicken strips, meat bites etc.
It would be even better if the Soy is Organically grown.
For Sri Lanka, it would be a good thing if the Buddhist priests and priests/clergy from other religions, got together to encourage growing of Organic Soy and other grains for burghers, and other trendy foods.
This enterprise would generate so many jobs !
As well, refrigeration would be needed for this industry, and Green Energy can step in here, also generating many jobs.