Its our turn to think
Rex Tyler, 24.01.2012 · Printable version
| Slash and burn farming
and Cattle Production Are seeing this shared Planet taking a hit And a lot of it sadly is down to the Meat Trade Fast forwards you got it A massive profit! High waste/pollution animal feed of Low grade The parasite pushes the message The TV chefs, media's paid Programming, all of it Subtle For they're earning money real fast And Wild habitats are being transformed From forests to Palm oil,its cast to Soya, The waste from these animals It is too vast It runs in to rivers,it runs in to oceans The vegans look on just aghast Feeding the cows on an unnatural diet creates nitrous oxide galore Methane, and so many other vile products knocking on every ones door the antibiotics, the hormones The GM,the cloning, so much Industrial Farming Is blooming well harming And most of us seem out of touch all this media hype pharmaceutical tripe For Climate change is in our ear Corporations are buying ethical business and spewing out babies to fear Fish Farming,Prawn farming all of it harming Mangroves and coasts now for sure Meat is the food of the moment Fast Foods are playing their cards Vast slaughter methods huge farming outlets And really not enough good safeguards Batteries,cages, abominably cruel Live exports of calves and feed methods and all now very much in the hands of a few Who seem to tell us, what to and not do The product on offer is not very good It lived too short time much less that it should We really must wake up to reality They are taking the piss and more have to see And the planet and its resources are now being raped The forests,the great rivers Once so landscaped into the countryside Now they are left Polluted and dying Nature's bereft Everyone'suffering, you see it,around Polar Bears trapped on the last piece of land Low lying beaches being swamped by the sea but the Corporate few now much bigger they be Many out stripping the nations we know The animals lives on these farms have to grow faster in shorter time, profit is king Their deaths are more violent and they are suffering And Governments are going along with it all They get their taxes which is as a rule Large enough really to save them from pain And they grow and they grow causing more and more strain To the much smaller businesses and the small farms,To the retail shops and the town centre's charms Boarded up shops litter high streets galore and behind all these boards sadness for sure Closures and re- possessions its all there Catalogues really of people despair I think that the vegans do have a strong case And more thinking of this kind may save our race Less land allocated for animal feed, more forests saved,its going to lead To less degradation of oceans and sea or rivers and streams and of course you and me Less noxious gases,more wild habitats Less pressure on indigenous people and cats Tigers and wild souls the wolves they will be along with the bears allowed to roam free So much of the land that is stolen today is about the meat trade in a roundabout way and the freeing up really of all this resource will improve our lot as a matter of course |









