We have made this world cold
pitiless and cruel.
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or dragged from the abyss
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cradling some in their desired blindness
while the hallowed beam that glows
shows to those with open eyes
only our hypocrisy
and the killing fields
beneath bone-light.
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Well said Jane ๐
Another meat factory scandal just broke.
Oh! I am afraid today I will have to bury my head and hum ๐ฅบ
That’s what husband says. It makes me weep.
It’s awful
If it’s left to the punters, they’ll pretend they don’t know where their meat comes from. It needs legislation to close down factory farms. So, meat gets expensive? So are truffles and wild salmon.
This is powerful Jane — and I agree. As a vegetarian (and failed vegan) since around 1988, you have encapsulated it all for me. Our treatment of each other — and our co-habitants the animals, in what should be a world of beauty — is an outright abomination. I think I shall have to write a poem on this subject too. I have reblogged your. Thank you.
Thank you, Francis. There was yet another report in the news today about the abominable conditions in pig factory farms. It’s too much. I feel like crying. I can’t eat meat, it is all just too cruel. We are monsters and most of us pretend it’s ‘natural’. Thanks for feeling the same way ๐
You’ve been rummaging in my thoughts again, Jane! Spot on!
This time of year is depressing enough without feeling the burden of shame and compassion for those billions of animals we abuse.
so awful
I don’t know how the activists who uncover this barbarity cope.
I canโt imagine
They have my admiration anyway.
Always a pleasure reading. Well done Jane
Thank you ๐
Very movingly evoked
Thank you. It’s distressing.
You are most welcome. I can see that…
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Factories and food should not occupy the same space. (K)
No, we should get those notions out of our heads.