All of the Animals
By Jennifer Faust
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

If we could have it all
Without any harm to cause
It's vegan
If we can find a way
To understand their pain
It's vegan

Mother Earth is crying out
Can't you hear her scream and shout
Through the storms?
A killer virus on the loose
Time to choose love over fear

All of the animals deserve the light
All of the animals deserve our love
All of the animals deserve the light
All of the animals deserve
Not to be killed
Not to be hurt
Not to be thrown into the dark
Only to be
Loved endlessly
For the beings that they are

Peace, harmony, and love
High vibrations from above
Are near
Respecting all the lives who are living in despair tonight

All of the animals deserve the light
All of the animals deserve our love
All of the animals deserve the light
All of the animals deserve
Not to be killed
Not to be hurt
Not to be thrown into the dark
Only to be
Loved endlessly
For the beings that they are

All of us animals
Deserve the light
All of us animals
Deserve the love
All of us animals
Deserve the light
All of us animals deserve...
Respect

Watch All of the Animals, written and composed by Jennifer Faust, music by Ryini Beats.

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From On Human Relations with Other Sentient Beings:

All of the Animals is believed to be the first vegan song from Ireland. It was written during the pandemic lockdowns in 2020. The video features footage of numerous free-living beings, and of the animals who live at the vegan-run Back Into Daylight animal sanctuary.

The Vegan Songstress (Irish singer-songwriter Jennifer Faust) is a Patron of Back Into Daylight animal sanctuary. All of The Animals has a powerful vegan and animal rights message with a language twist at the end of the song. “I wanted to emphasise that humans are animals, so the words are switched deliberately from ‘the animals’ to ‘us animals,’” says Jennifer, who wrote and co-produced the track. "Despite the serious theme, the song is melodic, catchy, and generally uplifting,” Jennifer stated.

All of the Animals is the fourth song Jennifer has released officially. Her previous releases are entitled, All Night Long, Not Gonna Cry, and a dramatic 17-minute song entitled Loving You.

Jennifer Faust was born in Dublin, Ireland. Brought up by her poet mother, and in a family in which her great aunt, Natalie P. Gage, was a singer raising funds for charities, her uncle was a published poet, and her father and both grandfathers were band drummers and sometime fiddle players, Jennifer started writing songs at the age of 8. Jennifer also began creating art at an early age and has a FB page called Jennifer Faust Art.

In recent years, since going vegan, a great deal of her artworks have expressed themes about the human use of other animals. Jennifer describes her song writing in spiritual terms, with lyrics and melodies appearing in her head at the sound of a single note or chord. “On the other hand,” she says, “the lyrics of All of The Animals came to me as I made a cup of tea!” Jennifer says she can best express herself best through art. “I’ve had a slight stammer since childhood, so I often found actually saying what I felt difficult. Art allows me to be articulate,” she says. Jennifer has practiced mediation for over 6 years which, she says, keeps her grounded.

For more than a decade, Jennifer has been part of a Dublin drama troupe called No Drama Theatre.

Jennifer became a vegan for ethical reasons in 2017 and has been an active animal rights activist ever since. She speaks to the public about how the founders of the vegan social movement envisioned a world of peace for all animals, humanity, and the planet.