The moment of truth

Patrick Galbraith resolves to be honest about the reality of the kill

LAST MONTH, AT LUNCH, my sister’s marathon-running boyfriend told me a story about a dead pig falling out the back of a van on a rainy day. He’d been walking through Smithfield Market at the time, heading off to do whatever it is he does, when a large bloke opened the rear door of his wagon and the big flaccid animal flopped into a puddle. “It was actually quite disgusting,”he reported, pushing his glasses up his nose. The consumption of animals and the process through which they end up on our plates is not all roses. The marathon-running boyfriend’s pig story came back to me the other day when I was standing beneath a beech tree in Norfolk looking across at a wounded pigeon at the bottom of a sprawl…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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