Necessary Suffering?
By Bernie Jones
An Animal Rights Poem from All-Creatures.org

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.

Necessary Suffering?
By Bernie Jones

We resign to the fact that lives will be lost 
To satisfy cravings, no matter the cost 
The voiceless will die, no screams to be heard 
Though the horror goes on, few people care

Grown for our pleasure 
Tweaked for good measure 
Slaughtered at leisure 
For a culinary treasure

Who said it was right to create life to take it? 
To slit the lamb's throat to grill fry or bake it?! 
Take newborns from mothers, slaughter cows whilst with baby? 
All for the sake of sausage and gravy!

Grown for our pleasure 
Tweaked for good measure 
Slaughtered at leisure 
For a culinary treasure

Watch the beast struggle whilst it's throat's being slit 
Improperly stunned, 
struggling, 
in agonizing pain, 
falling into the blood pit. 
Thrown live into the scalding tank, soon this pain must cease 
Poor innocent, 
never caused harm, 
on her vile path to everlasting peace

Grown for our pleasure 
Tweaked for good measure 
Slaughtered at leisure 
For a culinary treasure

Maybe they haven't died in vain 
Some good may come from all this pain... 
Might end up in a Jamie Oliver recipe!

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