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WindWalker
Senior Member

since 2001-10-12

Posts 1218

0 posted 2006-12-21 12:01 PM

Across acres of lush grass lands,
in a place where the wolf is forbidden to hunt
(and lucky for the wolf!),
tramples the ponderous beef cow,
dropping its droppings where it pleases;
sitting in its droppings where it pleases.
We feed it every kind of hybrid grain;
pump it full of chemicals
and there it grows: fat, fatter, fattest!

To the slaughter house goes the cow,
dismembered but not dis-empowered,
it moves to the butcher shop and grocery store,
in time to lay sizzling happily on the backyard barbecue
and proudly preside at a summer ritual: family feud!

Your gut gurgles away to strike a balance
between beer and meat
and between mouthfuls, curses and meaningful gestures
at someone you think you know – but don't,
you digest all those questionable chemicals.
Now maybe, just maybe, you die of botulism, or cancer
or something they haven't got a name for yet
and before your beer is even flat
you're peacefully six feet under...

And as you slowly turn to yummy food
for the creepy crawlies in nightshirts,
you see that damn cow you thought you'd had
chewing its cud in the moon and laughing
and now you know who won, don’t you!

Startime55
Member Elite

since 2003-04-05

Posts 2148
Alberta, Canada

1 posted 2006-12-21 01:12 PM

OOOOOOOOh my....I am not sure if I should laugh or cry...I would laugh because the image this brings to my minds eye, yet cry because that image could be me...I guess I am laughing at myself and wondering if there is anything left to eat in this world that is safe for us....**BIG HUGS**...so good to read your words, my friend...

Draugluin
Junior Member

since 2006-12-08

Posts 48
Ontario, Canada

2 posted 2006-12-21 02:08 PM

That cow has Mcdonald's written all over it.

Think i'll change my meal plans......

Pilgrimage
Member Elite

since 2001-12-04

Posts 3945
Texas, USA

3 posted 2006-12-21 04:08 PM

Hmmm. Maybe I should stick to mercury fish. Or salmonella chicken? If I was smart I'd go vegetarian, and still end up with e coli.

But at least it wouldn't hurt so much to look the spinach in the eye at the end.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

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