Choice

Have you seen a cow fight its way back out 

Of the slaughter line that won't let her leave? 

Or that same gentle beauty hung heavy by the leg 

On a chain, like a felled brute beast?

Have you seen pigs held down to suffocate, screaming, Squealing in choking chambers?

Or how pigs can play, train and answer like dogs,

Yet they still don't receive the same treatment?

Have you seen the alarm in the eyes of a bird 

Facing stun by electrified water? 

Or the injustice when innocent chicks are poured down 

Into death by an industrial grinder?

These animals fear every step of the way and 

You refuse, you refuse to acknowledge 

That we are the cause - 'free range' label or not - 

Unless we have mercy and stop this.

Do not buy packages produced by pain or 

Turn your back on these creatures who trust.

We have a choice and compassion's its name, 

Let peace in their kingdom start with us.

Copyright LJ Ireton 2019