Longreads"As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe. Disgust, maybe, or pity. All my life I’d been told that animals couldn’t feel the way we could, that their capacity for pain was virtually nonexistent. Yet every so often I would observe such a death and find myself filled with implacable doubts." —N.C. Happe for The Kenyon Review