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"In 'Zooicide, ' Sue Coe employs her bold artistic style to confront the institution of zoos, showing that they are inherently cruel and that the solution is not to reform them, but to abolish them. Coe's visual journalism investigates the mental anguish inflicted upon animals--including instances where they have killed themselves to end their torture. She depicts famous tragedies like the killing of the gorilla Harambe at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016 alongside lesser known but equally heart-wrenching incidents like the beating death of hippo Gustavito at a zoo in El Salvador. Zoos may pay lip service to education, enrichment, and conservation, but their depravity is systemic and ubiquitous. As long as animals are considered property, they will be treated as things, with no rights--things that can be caged, bred, abused, or killed for profit and entertainment. It's time to end this cruelty. A powerful companion to Coe's images, and written specifically for them, Stephen F. Eisenman's essay, 'The Capitalist Zoo, ' is a musing on a future where zoos have been abolished, a history of where they came from, and an appreciation of Coe's work and its place in art history"--Page 4 of cover In Zooicide, Sue Coe employs her bold artistic style to confront the institution of zoos. They are, she says, inherently cruel and the solution is not to reform them, but to abolish them. Coes visual journalism investigates the mental anguish inflicted upon animalsincluding cases where they have killed themselves to end their torture. Zoos often pay lip service to education, enrichment, and conservation, but their depravity is systemic and ubiquitous; it is built into the idea of animals as commodities. As long as they are property, animals will continue to be treated as things, with no rights, who can be caged, bred, abused, or killed for a profit and the publics entertainment. As a vital complement to Coe's images, and written specifically for them, Stephen F. Eisenman's essay, "The Capitalist Zoo," is a history of zoos written from the futurea future in which zoos as we know them no longer exist. Coe has a message to deliver, and her visceral, graphic imagery doesnt pull any punches. Coes righteous anger, not to mention her confident hand and riveting compositions, will hold your eye and haunt your mind. New Yorker