Unnamed Nureongi Waiting on Marado Island
Animal Rights Poetry By Lynne Goldsmith
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org
Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet with us and the people who fight for them.
Abattoir
By Lynne Goldsmith
Increased line speeds
animals on their way to death by blade
means more mouths to feed
around the world
140 birds slaughtered each minute
inside this plant where creatures are bred,
punched, hurled, thrown down
shackled to drown in electric stunning baths
that malfunction to slow pains of death
and to where animals are thrown into scalding tanks
before bleeding out after short life of ammonia burns
from being left to eat, sleep, stand in waste—their own
legs collapsing from weight of genetically altered bodies
from humans there is no stopping
machinations for now.
©Lynne Goldsmith, 2019
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