After watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) I came up with a theory: it is partly responsible for the modern veganism movement. Here is a movie that not only takes time to describe the horror of a slaughterhouse where no one has ever heard the term "humane treatment", but then also lets the victims know exactly how those slaughtered animals feel. Although there is only a total of four deaths in Tobe Hooper's highly influential horror movie, they all suffer in very graphic ways much like the cows that end up in hamburgers. Some are impaled on a meat hook, some have their skulls cracked with a hammer and of course, as the title clearly states, some meet their end at the end of a chainsaw. I am fortunate to be in a relationship with someone who also appreciates horror movies ( It chapters 1 and 2 were two of our dates) so last weekend when we saw that the original chainsaw massacre was available on Netflix this close to Halloween that seemed like a good w