Truth Tankas 2
Animal Rights Poetry By Heidi Stephenson From All-Creatures.org

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

“And the men who transgressed my covenant…
I will make like the calf which they cut in two…
and I will give them into the hand of their enemies
and into the hand of those who seek their lives.”
(Jeremiah 34:18, 20)

The Winners And The Losers

“Horses for courses,”
Say the men who like to bet.
Pushed to their limits,
So many die on race tracks -
Or are shot for breaking legs.

• Horse Racing Exposed: Drugs, Deception, and Death
• The Dark Side of Horse Racing
• Horse Slaughter in an English AbattoirA Hiding to Nothing

 Getting A Kick Out Of Killing

‘Crush’ sadists film death,
For cold, sexual ‘pleasure.’
Women in high heels,
Pierce the bodies of live mice;
Spear kittens through young stomachs.

• StopCrush.org
• Global Unity Against Animal Crush Video

This Cow Is Not Laughing

Her calf ripped away,
This cow is not laughing.
His milk birth-right stopped -
So the weaned can eat “dairy.”
Her cries fill the air with grief.

• Daisy Sour Cream and Cottage Cheese: Calves Torn From Their Mothers, Sick and Struggling to Breathe
• Where Does My Milk Come From?
• The Dark Side of Dairy
• ‘A Calf and a Half’ – Cadbury Investigation

 The Premature Arrival

Sheep sent for “slaughter”
Are often pregnant with lambs.
In fear they give birth.
Their lambs suck the thumbs of blood;
Not knowing what else to do.

• Pregnancy at Slaughter: What Happens to the Calves?
• Film: Sentenced to Death
• Shocking Slaughter Footage: 10 Minute Compilation
• The ‘Humane Slaughter’ Myth

 The Golden Rule
We reap what we sow:
Don’t harm or kill animals.
To kill is so wrong.
In eating ‘meat’ you collude.
Do, as you would be done by.