food CARSTEN HÖLLER the no kill kitchen manifesto photography by pierre björk What life is, nobody really knows. Considering the amount and diversity of definitions of life, and their overall unsatisfactoriness, it must be a complicated thing. I would even go one step further: what life is, is not meant to be understood. Not by us conscious beings, at least. Because if we did, we would be in trouble. We would use this knowledge in ways detrimental to our survival. We also don’t understand what consciousness is for the same reason. And nobody remembers birth, the moment when you exit the womb, because that pain would leave you traumatized for the rest of your life. It must be a healthy thing — not to be able to know some things and not to be able to remember others. We kill for food all the time. Some people avoid eating certain…