A Life is a life
and a knife is a knife
And an animals throat
is her own
Open your eyes
and please realise
That steak, you
just might have known

You might have stroked
that darling cow once
Or drank from its udder
Who knows?
And now its a' hanging
up there on that chain
With blood spurting out
of its nose

A Life is a life
And a steak is a steak
But really what stake
Did the cow
Have in the, well, the
equation, nothing at all
which was how

It existed for 4 years not 15
Raped by some farm hand each year
It gave up its babies
Despite its torment
Oh! yes that abundantly clear
It was milked half
to death
And made lame
Till each breath
was a torturous struggle
to make
A Life is a life
and strife is such strife
When the pain
became too hard to take

But not in the world
where the vegans
Respect living creatures
with soul
Every animal now on this planet
Is given to complete control
Each has a life
Each manages breath
And only, Mother Nature
decides on its death

Not the Farmer who
Needs to pay off his loan
Nor the Corporate Clown
Who hastens to own
Every farm in the district
Nor the slaughterhouse staff
Who descend into mayhem
and kill with a laugh
We won't see shelves
of dead flesh any more
or chemical added to what
was pure gore
Thrust in a pigs stomach
and fried in a pan
There will be fewer animals
That is our plan

More food for the humans
Much more water too
Pollution reduced
The rainforest view
Less likely to be
Crushed and carted away
and replaced by the soya bean
Every day
A friendlier affable society
where a life is a life
With less anxiety