Extraction post-mortem

These are the tools and techniques of killing other animals for bodily extraction.

Bull Ring

The bull ring is a pain compliance device. It is pierced through the sensitive flesh of a bull’s nasal septum usually when they are around 1 year of age. It allows a human to gain control over an uncastrated adult male bovine through the coercive threat of extreme pain. This device does not merely neutralize resistance when it emerges, it diminishes the expression of resistance before it emerges.

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The Museum of Human Predation does not contain precious treasures and curiosities plucked from far and wide. What lies within its collections are neither priceless rarities sought out by art collectors nor singular objects prized for their aesthetic beauty or venerated as religious or spiritual tokens. The materials in the Museum of Human Predation are the very antithesis of the precious object. They are the mundane and homely utensils of an arduous unglamorous enterprise, likely to have been mass produced out of the most economical materials available. Disconnected from their original context and function, these wares are of relatively little worth.

Preservation / Liquidation

To the domestic predator, life is first of all a preserving agent of bodies that serve as "meat on the hoof" and "walking larders." Life is also a form of biological capital for generating additional bodily material and for reproducing itself in the form of offspring. Life is the golden thread that extends the act of predation over and beyond the life of an individual, transforming present flesh into a future stream of animal material.

Animal production tools displayed on pedestal with banners behind them

Grown Brutal From the Fare

April 4 - 5, 2025

The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, United States

"We had fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare" — Y.B. Yeats

Brutal From the Fare was a special exhibit mounted for the Harms and Freedoms: Captivity, Natural Habitats, and Sanctuary Conference at the George Washington University Law School. The exhibit featured instruments of domestic predation drawn from the Museum's collections touching on the themes of Forced Reproduction, Sexual Compulsion, and Child Separation.

Display of animal production tools on pedestals — Photo by Bruce White

A display of an artificial insemination glove with a banner behind it — Photo by Bruce White

Display of an artificial insemination rod — Photo by Bruce White

Display of a bovine artificial vagina and a bull nose ring — Photo by Bruce White

Display of an esophageal calf feeder and anti-suckling devices with a banner behind it — Photo by Bruce White

Display of anti-suckling devices — Photo by Bruce White

Several booklets on the exhibit, Grown Brutal From the Fare, displayed on a round table — Photo by Bruce White

Thank you to the Animal Legal Education Initiative at the George Washington University Law School, the Justice for Animals Program at the University of San Francisco School of Law, The Whale Sanctuary Project, the GW chapter of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, and to Professors Iselin Gambert, Joan Schaffner, Kathy Hessler, and Matthew Liebman for hosting this Exhibit.

This Exhibit is a project of The Animal Remembrance Commission and the Museum of Human Predation.

The Exhibit creators are M.H. Tse, Yshia Wallace, Rachel Wallace, and Petrina Ng.

All photos by Bruce White

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Preservation / Liquidation

Grown Brutal From the Fare