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Sue Coe’s advocacy of animal rights is unmatched in its eloquence, forcefulness, and lasting impact. She does so with a combination of extraordinary images and few words. In her unstinting insistence on tolerance and love, Coe brings us to a life-affirming philosophy that values compassion over greed, community over self, and life over capital.
In 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations for The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for action that takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of history. As a prize-winning artist, she bears witness to unspeakable crimes, and has long advocated that we human beings must take more responsibility for ourselves, our fellow species, and the planet. Her illustrations, in the tradition of Goya, Kollwitz, and Grosz, will be familiar to many; her paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in galleries and museum around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
"In the Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe, human champion of rights for those whose voice most humans do not hear, has crafted a masterpiece at once visually stunning and spiritually invigorating."
—Dr. Michael Greger, author of How Not to Die
"Sue Coe is the most important and prolific political artist of our time. Her work explores and exposes every form of injustice suffered by both humans and nonhumans. With respect to the latter, her incisive eye—both trenchant and gentle—lays bare the profound immorality of animal exploitation and constitutes a clarion call to us all to reject it. Coe understands that the moral status of animals requires that we go vegan and no one who looks at the stunning work in this book will be able to disagree." —Gary L. Francione, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers School of Law
The Animals' Vegan Manifesto edition by Sue Coe Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto by Sue Coe
“We are the Nazis, there is no escaping it. Nazi is a condition of humanity.”
Animal exploitation, killing and abuse is at an all-time high and the suffering we humans inflict so sickening, so shocking, so painful to bear witness to that the majority turn away from the activist photographs which shine a light on this darkness, in horror begging “Don’t tell me. Don’t tell me, I don’t want to know.” But Sue Coe’s clever political art gets right in, under the radar. She unlocks hearts like no other and forces the wilfully blind to see. Doing what art does when it’s at its best, inspired, courageous and just about bearable, she shatters our complacency with her vivid, evocative empathy, her highly memorable compassion. Sue Coe tells it as it is, from the animals’ point of view, in sharp, black and white woodcuts. She emblazons the need for change on our reluctant, human consciousness. She dreams the dream of a humane, vegan world, Martin Luther King-style.
This is a book in two parts. The reality of our man-made Death cult in which a slaughterman can pitch-fork a living baby piglet, a human fist can hover menacingly over a newborn male chick, ready to smash him into non-existence and a baby lamb can so casually be turned into so much minced meat, is presented with an uncompromising commitment to the terrible truth. God-given lives are Satanically alchemized into meaningless bags of money, by a gang of greedy men. Lobsters are boiled alive by indifferent chefs. We witness the terror of a cow being forced into the abattoir while her desperate calf tries to cling to her. We see (and our imaginations hear) the hysterical weeping, leaping and screaming, the terrible grief of some sows as they watch helplessly as one of their youngsters is stunned in preparation for his imminent murder. Organic, free range, crate free “Happy Meat” is shown to be anything but. While we eat, drink and continue to be merry, the animals die. A couple sit, wine in hand, over yet another roast dinner – surrounded by the spirits of all the animals whose lives they have directly taken (over 11,000 per person, per lifetime, according to VIVA! figures).
Animal suffering – emotional as well as physical – is given full vent. We witness the abject misery, the highly conscious tear drops of a trapped, ‘battery’ hen, of a grief-stricken cow in the presence of her murdered calf; the depression, profound pain (and grave sense of injustice) of an innocent pig locked inside the dark hell of his ‘prison cell.’ Lions weep in their cages; elephants are literally brought to their knees in heavy ‘circus’ chains. In a bleak landscape, filled only with dark, ominous tower blocks and dead tree stumps, a lone wolf is trapped in agony, his front leg gripped by a deathly leg-hold trap. A crying angel comforts a bleeding goose whose feathers have been excruciatingly ripped out through live plucking. A ewe hugs her lamb-child with such tenderness against the terrifying backdrop of a missile attack a bleak reminder that human bombs rain down on animals too. Genetic mutations, vivisection, the gassing of unwanted animals, Sue Coe does not leave a single tombstone unturned.
The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto also shows us the madness of it all the two-faced, Janus heads of Man who with one arm affectionately strokes his dog, while with the other he stabs a baby lamb in the throat with a knife. Men devour platefuls of meat, while a Third World child starves to death. An autocratic father force-feeds his baby with a young piglet, creating the seeds of his own child’s premature demise. Another man devours two, huge turkey legs - and with them pus, salmonella, e-coli, and an early grave.
In part two, the tide finally, mercifully turns and we are shown what could be - what will ultimately be. Sue Coe has a Martin Luther King-scale Dream. There is love in the skies, in the heavens; animal angels are shown to be the guiding stars of their animal brethren. There is hope. And there is liberation. On pages 57 and 58 a cow cuts through the barbed wire of some hell-hole of a farm under a bright moon. Her act is deliberate and conscious, and we know that it will ultimately be effective. On page 63 a goat does the same. On pages 74 and 75 two brave pigs follow suit. Chains are broken, and the animals, literally, see the Light.
There are human cries too, vegan cries for “Freedom! Peace! Justice! Stop Violence!” The vegans become far greater in number, unwilling to participate any longer in the meat industry’s blood money scam. A thin, but determined donkey walks through the night towards a new Vegan World which is only 155 miles away. Other animals find the path too and begin to pursue it hopefully; they carry a V banner above them.
An Isaian world begins to manifest a mule embraces a dog, a cow and a pig write a new law “Eat veg, not us,” another cow scours The Vegan News for inspiration, and the animals unite in a common mission for love and unity. They help each other – and they find their freedom again. They share a vegan meal together, and they sleep soundly in the protective care of each other. A bat heralds rebirth and more Good News. The bears enjoy their tree tops again; bucks and fawns leap for joy, fish dance in ponds.
Shooting stars break out in the night skies as a choir of wolves sing to the new world; butterfly and grasshopper exchange flowers, a sunflowers bursts into fullest bloom. A woman holds a calf in her arms, expressing her deepest, motherly/sisterly love, clearly mourning all the terror, pain and violent death which man has inflicted on the animals for so long. There is great rejoicing as the world finally becomes vegan. Miraculously, a hardened scientist breaks out of his own man-made cage - and stretches out to embrace the animals, while a cockerel heralds a new vegan dawn.
Sue Coe grew up next to a slaughterhouse in Liverpool. In The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto she conveys the most important message of our times, about the last, most terrible, most prolonged, mass slavery and life-engulfing genocide the world has ever known. There is great love in these pages and her vision is Biblical in its moving magnificence. She has done what a thousand words from a thousand writers have failed to do. She is a true prophet of our times - and her book is essential reading. If you buy just one book this year, let it be this one.
Brilliant and moving. It may yet become the Uncle Tom's Cabin of animal rights the little book that helped turn the tide of history.
Often times words are not enough when I consider animal cruelty. Words fail me. No words describe animal exploitation. No words say how I feel. No words could possibly express how I imagine what the animals suffer.
This is when I turn to Sue Coe. To say her work is unique and special is to understate its ability to tell truths the world would rather not know. Now, we have her new book, The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto, to explore and inspire us further to act for social justice regardless of species.
“The beast sits on our doorstep, lies next to us in bed, hides inside our flesh. We are the Nazis. There is no escaping it. Nazi is a condition of humanity.”
This is one of two texts to read in The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto. (p. 4) We are now in the world as seen through the eyes of Sue Coe, the artist who prefers to be described as a visual journalist. This is a collection of more than 100 images “carved from the wood of wild cherry trees, the former homes of bears, squirrels and birds, cut down by the Millennium pipeline.”
The narrative begins with the depiction of animal exploitation, which sparks a revolution led by grassroots vegans, and ends with a vegan world where the animals enjoy their freedom.
To pick just two of the wood cuts to briefly describe. A male hunter dressed in paramilitary drag aims an automatic rifle at point blank range at a baby bird. In the background, hunters kill a rabbit and deer. (p.34) After the vegan revolution, birds fly in the sky, deer bound across the countryside, and fish jump with joy in the pond. (p. 103)
The second text (p. 119) is the “animals’ vegan manifesto to 2 leggeds” with six principles that conclude “from all of us, of fur, fin and feather… eat plants, not us, thank you.”
Since the 1984, I have followed Sue’s work when I first read about the controversy caused by her representation of Bobby Sands from the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was on hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison. Evidence that she is now recognised as an artist of significant importance, her portrait of Bobby Sands and other works are now held by the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This is one of many recognitions she deserves.
Her focus ranges across such social justice issues as sex workers, AIDS, animal rights, and capitalism. Regardless of whether you agree with her point of view or not, her perspective demands our attention and forces us to think. There’s no better place to start than with The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto.
To learn more about Sue Coe, visit Graphic Witness and Galerie St. Etienne.
I met Sue Coe twice years ago. Her pictures of animal abuse bear witness to the reality of their experience.
Brilliant and original. Just what we expect from Sue Coe. Full of empathy for all the animals of the earth. I love this little book.
Such moving, beautiful work. I also love how small the book is.
Beautiful and often disturbing woodcuts by Sue Coe. A persuasive argument for veganism.
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