The Slaughterman's Birthday
By Bernie Jones
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

All of God's creatures have rights, a fact that most people don't seem to recognize. This includes both human and non-human animals, but not all of them can speak for themselves.

The Slaughterman's Birthday
By Bernie Jones

I saw the balloons on the slaughterhouse door 
Red like the colour of the slaughterhouse floor 
Someone's having a birthday and they'll eat some cake 
What birthday wish will the animals make

Let's have a party 
As we take some lives 
Let's celebrate 
Whilst we use our knives 
Let's have some fun 
As the young calf screams 
We'll drown the noise out 
...with laughter.

Happy birthday to you 
BANG GOES THE GUN 
Happy birthday to you 
LET'S HAVE SOME FUN, FUN, FUN! 
Happy birthday dear slaughterman! 
The calf drops with a thud 
Happy birthday to you 
Now she's covered in blood

So let's have a party 
As we take some lives 
Let's celebrate 
Whilst we use our knives 
Let's have some fun 
As the young calf screams 
We'll drown the noise out 
...with laughter

The absurdity of what I saw made me cry 
To think that 'they' are laughing as the animals die 
Cut down in their prime for us to eat 
No birthdays for them, just a journey to 'meat'.

But, let's have a party 
As we take some lives 
Let's celebrate 
Whilst we use our knives 
Let's have some fun 
As the young calf screams 
We'll drown the noise out 
...with laughter.

Inside those walls today they're having some fun 
Celebrating someone's life as their bloody work is done 
Many years he's worked taking life after life 
...now let's celebrate his?

Yeah, let's have a party 
As we take some lives 
Let's celebrate 
Whilst we use our knives 
Let's have some fun 
As the young calf screams 
We'll drown the noise out 
...with laughter.

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