Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead (Upswell, 2023)

Overview

Singer’s essays are about what humans do to animals, and each other. They focus on the horrors of mechanised slaughter the edifice of the food supply chain keeps out of mind and out of view. Abattoir comes from a French word which means “to slaughter”, Singer notes towards the end of the collection. It serves as a kind of helpful euphemism, perhaps helping those of who are happy to go on eating meat not to think of them as slaughterhouses, even though that is what they are.

- The Canberra Times by Jasper Lindell 25 March 2023

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