Poems of compassion dedicated to the non-human animals who share this planet
with us and the people who fight for them.
Dairy, dairy, quite contrary,
how can your brothers grow?
Now piercing yells in terror hells,
and bleeding babes all in a row!
Dairy, dairy, so contrary,
treating young friends, like a foe?
With killing fells, for dainty sells,
and crying calves laid low?
Dairy, dairy, beyond contrary,
how would we each like to go?
With eyes like wells, as murder quells,
in agony, blow on blow?
İHeidi Stephenson, September 2020
Image by Unparallelled Suffering
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