The Last Barbecue (My meat is going in your mouth tonight) is a critical response to industrialised animal farming – an anthropogenic activity significantly contributing to today's environmental problems. The work explores the cognitive dissonance between meat eating and meat production through an engagement with Carol Adams’ theory of the “absent referent” and Dinesh Wadiwel’s concept of “epistemic violence”, by putting forward the societal behaviours which render opaque the sentience of our fellow animal beings so that we can continue to satiate our appetites for meat.