{"id":92383,"date":"2013-10-17T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=92383"},"modified":"2013-10-17T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:17:42","slug":"banksy-goes-ham-artists-truck-full-of-stuffed-animals-satirizes-factory-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/banksy-goes-ham-artists-truck-full-of-stuffed-animals-satirizes-factory-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Banksy Goes Ham: Artist&#8217;s Truck Full of Stuffed Animals Satirizes Factory Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s favorite anonymous graffiti artist\/activist has turned his analytical eye toward the meat industry. Banksy, the probable British artist known for his hidden identity and politically-charged spray paint satire, has momentarily stopped the illuminating public vandalization to trot out a bizarre mobile art installation in New York City. In a green truck that could have carried supplies during World War II, Banksy stuffed a cadre of animatronic stuffed animals; mooing, squawking, and bleating as they hang out of the truck in horror, all in an effort to raise awareness about factory farmed animals.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sirens of the lambs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WDIz7mEJOeA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Banksy has been tagging New York City for weeks on his &#8220;Better Out Than In&#8221; tour, an unofficial residency that has sparked renewed interest in the unknown artist. He&#8217;s made a 9\/11 tribute, taken on McDonald&#8217;s with a cartoon-like sculpture, painted urinating dogs, and generally gotten under Mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s skin. This latest mobile piece will make people think without defacing any public property.<\/p>\n<p>The piece\u2014called &#8220;Sirens of the Lambs&#8221;\u2014 will be scuttling around New York City for two weeks, and appropriately enough, began its journey in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan. Via a phone number on the side of the truck, streetwalkers can dial in to listen to an audio companion about the piece. The cheeky narrator wonders if the piece is a bit &#8220;subtle,&#8221; and we also learn Banksy worked in a butcher shop as a younger man, &#8220;an experienced that seems to have resonated with him.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"banksy sirens of the lambs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/banksy-goes-ham-artists-truck-full-of-stuffed-animals-satirizes-factory-farming\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92401\" alt=\"banksy animal truck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/banksy-animal-truck.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/banksy-animal-truck.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/banksy-animal-truck-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Animals raised for slaughter are generally treated in an <strong><a title=\"food inc spotlights farm malpractice\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/food-inc-is-hungry-for-change\/\">awful manner<\/a><\/strong>. They&#8217;re bred to be fat, and thusly fed copious amounts of food\u2014usually corn because it&#8217;s cheap and prevalent\u2014and often only physically move a few feet from birth to death. When kept in close quarters with their fellow species, animals become stressed out and attack each other. That&#8217;s why they often have their beaks, tails, and teeth are removed\u2014without painkillers. (Shock from teeth removal is a common cause of death among piglets.)<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t care about animal cruelty solely for the fact that they are just animals, you might develop some compassion when you contract a disease from eating tainted factory-farmed meat. The more confined an animal is, the more the risk of viral mutation occurs, putting the human population&#8217;s health in jeopardy with a possible spread of the avian flu, E.coli, or any number of unsavory viruses.<\/p>\n<p>Bansky&#8217;s spotlight on <strong><a title=\"chicken cruelty\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/government-bails-out-chicken-factory-farmers\/\">animal cruelty<\/a><\/strong> isn&#8217;t revealing anything we didn&#8217;t already know; the documentary section of Netflix is ripe with <strong><a title=\"fresh the movie\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/01\/review-fresh-the-movie\/\">food and farming commentaries<\/a><\/strong>. But there has yet to be a more disquieting, creepy, and hilarious take on the flawed farm industry as Banksy&#8217;s &#8220;Sirens of the Lambs.&#8221; Maybe his next piece will involve the removal of all the carbon from our atmosphere that his semi-truck emitted. 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