Of Cattle and Men - Ron Scholes

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor MiloÂ’s slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. ItÂ’s important to calm the... Zobrazit více