The baby cow
was castrated
and branded with a hot iron,
earpunched for an ID tag
and with antibiotics injected.
*
At the feedlot he had
to slosh around in
thousands of other mammals'
urine and waste.
*
In and out of the
slaughterhouse truck
he was kicked
before the final and
unkindest cut of all
*
No matter what
the tyrannical human
chauvinist law says,
animals are not property,
not objects.
*
Butchers should put down
their knives and axes and
stun guns
.. butchers should disarm
and let animals live
without doing them harm.