THE MEAT INDUSTRY

We the creatures born to the meat industry
Are cast as we hatch
Into darkened family storehouses
Where we spend our short lives.

Our growth is unnaturally expedited due to
Genetic cultivation causing over 90%
Of us to suffer
Handicaps, miscarriages and chronic diseases.

As we grow, so does our density,
And we need to tread on each other
On our way to the food.

Suffering is enhanced
Due to conditions of transportation
And candles on cakes
To be blown out.
During conveyance, sprains
And chest and wing fractures occur
As well as aspirations for freedom
And suffocation by the world's certainty.
Many drop out every year
In transit from playpen to deathbed.
The remaining ones
Are brought to the slaughterer
To have their throats cut, then
Are tossed to bleed and seize
In a pail of pain
Or hung by their shoes on the conveyor belt,
Flying in their dreams.

We die conscious
For a few minutes due to hope flowing to the brain
From peripheral blood vessels.

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