Welt Online (national daily newspaper, online edition), 03.02.2003

“The butcher cuts the carotid artery, a thick stream of blood only partially flows into a bowl held at the ready. This does not usually happen when an animal is slaughtered because two strong men hold steady the jerking carcass. In her film Schlachtfest – or: ‘It is the Tragedy of Life that Our Food is made of Countless Murdered Souls,’ Sibylle Trost visibly recoils at such overwhelming scenes.”