MACELLI E MACELLAI SICILIANI
Anche noi che ci preoccupiamo per un gatto dalla zampa spezzata o per un cane abbandonato, poi facciamo finta di non sapere come vengono uccisi i vitelli per fornirci di bistecche: in fila di prima mattina al mattatoio, uno dietro l'altro, aspettando il turno per sottoporsi al crudele chiodo pneumatico che spacca loro il cranio in un secondo. E la cosa più atroce è che mentre fanno la fila, vedono morire i figli, i fratelli, le madri, i padri. E quando li trasportano da un paese all'altro, da una città all'altra, li spingono dentro dei vagoni sprangati in cui sono costretti a stare in piedi per giorni interi, facendosi i bisogni l'uno addosso all'altro, senza mangiare e senza bere (tanto vanno a morire e chi se ne frega), proprio come facevano i nazisti con le loro vittime.
Dacia Maraini
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Even we, who worry about a cat with a broken leg or an abandoned dog, then pretend not to know how calves are killed to provide us with steak: queuing up early in the morning at the slaughterhouse, one behind the other, waiting their turn to undergo the cruel pneumatic nail that splits their skulls in an instant. And the most atrocious thing is that while they wait in line, they see their children, brothers, mothers, fathers die. And when they transport them from one country to another, from one city to another, they are shoved into locked wagons where they are forced to stand for days on end, defecating on each other, without food or water (they're going to die anyway, who cares), just like the Nazis did to their victims. Dacia Maraini
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Dacia Maraini
©Shobha
Even we, who worry about a cat with a broken leg or an abandoned dog, then pretend not to know how calves are killed to provide us with steak: queuing up early in the morning at the slaughterhouse, one behind the other, waiting their turn to undergo the cruel pneumatic nail that splits their skulls in an instant. And the most atrocious thing is that while they wait in line, they see their children, brothers, mothers, fathers die. And when they transport them from one country to another, from one city to another, they are shoved into locked wagons where they are forced to stand for days on end, defecating on each other, without food or water (they're going to die anyway, who cares), just like the Nazis did to their victims. Dacia Maraini
©Shobha
