Now cow is hung in Australia restaurant.
Now cow is hung in Australia restaurant.
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An Australian restaurant hung a dairy cow from its ceiling to call attention to the industrialization of the farming industry has been criticised on social media for unkindness. 

Owners Federico and Melissa Pisanelli, who are obsessive about animal welfare, defended their decision to hang the large Friesian-Hereford cow from its hind legs, saying they wanted to remind patrons of how meat was sourced.

"We have worked hard to educate on the origins of the food we are serving," Melissa Pisanelli said at the Etica restaurant in the southern city of Adelaide, which has meat and dairy on its menu. "It's talking about how the industry has become industrialized, and how it's moving in a way that doesn't keep up with consumers' observation.

Federico Pisanelli said they also wanted the aggressive installation, which is right above dining tables, to challenge the "idyllic view of happy cows and green field". "It is a tackle to look at a cow like that because it challenges our usual representations of a dairy cow".

The installation has glow debate on the Restaurant's in its Facebook page, with one user accusing the owners of promoting "unkindness, unawareness, and conflict".

"If yours was a vegan restaurant, this would make a little sense.... Since yours aren't, you are subjecting the cow as a pure decoration piece," another person wrote. But not all commentators were critical. "Very few restaurants are willing to start a conversation about where their food comes from", one user wrote. "We have to stop seeing meat as something that comes from the supermarket and understand the pain and suffering animals sometimes go through,"

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