'Suicide food' is the depiction of animals that act as if they want to be consumed. Long-running blog Suicide Food grabs such images from logos, ads, restaurants and food packaging and presents them with commentary.

The entries that accompany the pictures range from sarcastic to sad, and each image is given a noose rating: from one noose, 'mildly troubling' to five nooses, 'ye Gods - I must wash out my eyeballs! ' Pictures are also searchable by noose-ratings and categories like bacon, cows, beer etc.

Although at first glance this blog seems amusing, with lots of smiling livestock and cartoon pictures, it takes but a moment before queasiness sets in. Seeing the suicide foods en masse highlights with sickening regularity how removed many consumers are from the products that they eat. Even the most hardened meat-eater would have to concede that there is something distasteful about pretending that their livestock is happy to be on the plate. That this pretence is so widespread and accepted is questioned by Suicide Foods.

If you're disgusted by butchers who happily paint their stores with smiling livestock, hate seeing dancing dairy cows on TV, or simply like to think more deeply about images used in the media and advertising, Suicide Food is well worth a look.

Check it out here.

WORDS : Lisa Dempster