As described by
Tool in their song
Disgustipated, the
plight of
the
carrots is the
holocaust of
harvest time.
Imagine the horror experienced by a sentient carrot, the terrible
knowledge that you and all of the others in your field will be
harvested for food, and, for the least lucky of you, the atrocity
known as carrot juice.
The life of a carrot is a hard one. Completely immobile, your entire
existence is a strain, ever upwards toward the sun, toward light and
life. But with growth comes vulnerability, first to darkness
and thirst, then to weeds, then to the horrid rabbits,
other rodents, and even some insects. Since you
cannot move, the water which gives you life can drown you if it
comes too heavily or too often. And, even then, after surviving all
that, your short life is snuffed out in the end by the brute of a
farmer that raised you.
Imagine the rage at a culture which idolizes and adores the fiend,
Bugs Bunny. How they have reduced his senseless massacre of
your brethren to a running gag, simplified it as a simple food fetish.
Imagine the realization that you have been brought into the world
solely for the purpose of slaughter and consumption. Imagine the
terror of knowing that every carrot in your field will meet the same
awful fate, ending their existence in the
shopping carts and dinner plates of
the monsters which raised each and every one of you.
Imagine knowing all of this, and not being able to fight back, to
cry out, to run away. It is as Tool's Angel of the Lord says to
Brother Maynard:
Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers.
For, tomorrow is harvest day, and to them, it is the holocaust.