Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2011 The egetV arian's Guide to Eating Meat Marissa Landrigan Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Landrigan, Marissa, "The eV getarian's Guide to Eating Meat" (2011). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 12119. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/12119 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The vegetarian’s guide to eating meat by Marissa Landrigan A thesis submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF FINE ARTS Major: Creative Writing & Environment Program of Study Committee: Benjamin Percy, Major Professor Linda Hasselstrom Linda Shenk Michael Dahlstrom Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2011 Copyright © Marissa Landrigan, 2011. All rights reserved. 1 CHAPTER ONE I‘m standing in knee-high rubber boots, watching blood pool into translucent puddles, then drift slowly towards the drains in the center of the sloped concrete floor. My long hair is bunched up under a plastic shower cap, pulled down nearly over my eyebrows, and around my ears. I‘m not talking much because it‘s noisy in here: the hum and roar of an electric meat saw whirring through flesh; the metallic lurching of a pulley hoisting thousand-pound bodies up to the rafters; the hole-punch ricochet of a bolt gun and the resultant crumpling collapse.