Death Culture
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org

In 100 years there will be no insects left on earth, according to a global scientific review.

“Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught, and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” ― Cree Indian Prophecy

“You shall not kill!” (Exodus 20:13, Deuteronomy 5:17)

Insecticide

(adulticide, larvicide, ovicide),

formicide, molluscacide, muscacide, aphidicide, vespacide…

- Pesticide! Hosticide! Verminicide! Tickicide!

…Piscicide, (ceticide, sealicide, ursicide…)

…Avicide (birdicide, sparrowcide…)

…Apicide…

…Weedicide, floricide, herbicide, phytocide…

Ecocide. Biocide.

Mundicide. Populicide.

Onmicide!

(Ambicide.)

NOTES: Denotes the killing of:

• 1 Insects, 2 adult insects, 3 insect larvae, 4 insect eggs, 5 ants, 6 snails, 7 flies, 8 aphids, 9 wasps, 10 so-called ‘pests’ from the exploitative human’s lens of perception, 11 enemies, 12 so-called ‘vermin,’ 13 ticks, 14 fish, 15 whales, 16 seals, 17 bears, 18 birds, 19 birds, 20 sparrows, 21 bees, 22 so-called ‘weeds’, 23 flowers, 24 herbs, 25 plants, 26 the natural world, 27 all life, 28 the entire world, 29 all people, 30 everything, 31 friends.
• Insects Are Dying En Masse, Risking 'Catastrophic' Collapse of Earth's Ecosystems
• Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’
• Buglife.org.uk

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©Heidi Stephenson, February 2019