This should have it's own thread. If the artist is trying to make some animal welfare statement then I'm all for it, I even recently had an argument with my brother about a new study claiming that fish don't feel pain (I am sure it was financed by some fisheries department). But shouldn't we as a species be doing something about the way we treat each other. While these images may be graphic and taken out of context to highlight a cause, they pale in to comparison to real life images of human atrocities inflicted on other humans, although you will never see them in the mainstream.
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