Why is it human grownups

Think their own young folk should never

Be distressed by seeing things that are

Upsetting, cruel or gory,

For instance they would never

Show them pictures of the slaughter

Of the ones they eat for dinner,

Yet it's quite a different story

When it comes to other young ones

Who don't happen to be human,

But are just as much in need of

Loving tenderness and care,

Folk are happy to distress them,

Not just simply with a picture

Of the slaughterhouse so brutal,

But by putting them in there.

The pig is but a youngster

When he's whisked away and murdered

And as sensitive and frightened

As a human son or daughter,

And the six week baby chicken

Is as scared as any toddler

When she's strung up by her ankles

And conveyed to brutal slaughter,

So it's surely inconsistent

To show such consideration

For the feelings of the little ones

We think of as our own,

Yet to treat with cold indifference

All these 'other mothers' children

Who are equally deserving

Pig are slaughtered at six months and 'broiler' chickens still have their baby blue eyes when killed at six weeks of age. 'Bobby' calves are killed when only a few day sold and 'veal' calves are killed at six months. Half of all chicks bred by the egg industry (the males) are killed shortly after birth by suffocation, gassing or mincing. All farmed animals are subjected to pain and distress from the time of their birth.

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