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.
I've often heard it said by folk
Who relish eating meat,
'The animals were put on Earth
For human beings to eat'.
Well if God made them just for us,
Explain it, if you can,
Why they arrived one hundred million
Years ahead of man.
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