Los textos que utilizamos a diario en clase están llenos de referencias especistas. Pero también, en los textos literarios encontramos múltiples ejemplos de la situación y el dolor que padecen los animales. Aquí tenemos una muestra:
Filo cries while two of her children, beside the bed, look on without understanding: their eyes full of tears, their expression vaguely sad, almost lost, like that of those calves still breathing -the steaming blood on the flagstones of the floor- while they lick, with the clumsy tongue of the last moments, the filth on the blouse of the butcher who wounds them, indifferent as a judge: the cigarette butt on his lips, his thoughts on any maid and a zarzuela romance in his turbid voice.
The Hive. Camilo José Cela.
Therefore, any time is a good time to spark students' interest in the problems animals face. Through what seems like a mere comparison, Cela manages in this passage to illustrate the fear of a cow before being slaughtered and the indifference of the slaughterer who is about to end its life, ignoring the feelings and experiences he is denying that animal.al.