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Knowflake

Posts: 222
From: Taipei, Taiwan
Registered: Jan 2004

posted May 19, 2004 11:42 AM

We watch the chickens being crammed into cages
And there's no way to move
Without empathy

We watch the pigs being piled together in the mud
In their own waste
Without empathy

We watch the baby calf being taken away when it has just been born
And the mother cries
Without empathy

We watch the fish being torn up and bleeding
Grasping for breath
Eventually, they stop struggling
Without empathy

We watch the wild ones being gunned down
For the sake of 'balancing the population'
And we fry them
Without empathy

We watch the living's throats being cut
In the name of God
They die painfully and slowly
Without empathy

We bless the dead bodies on our dining table
Cheering as we chew the corpses
The blood is gone
Without empathy

We kill for pleasure
In the abattoir
The living scream in horror
All this
Without empathy

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Dana

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paras
Knowflake

Posts: 46
From: the Heart of It All
Registered: May 2004

posted May 19, 2004 03:53 PM

Your words are beautiful, even though their meaning is anything but.

This is a subject I tend to avoid thinking about, because the stubborn refusal of most people to feel empathy for anything that is not human saddens and frustrates me. There seems to be no argument that even a Libra like myself can use to wrangle compassion out of the carnivores.

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