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In Poland they slaughtered sows.
In Argentina they killed cows.
In Mexico they beat up donkeys.
In Zaire they caged up monkeys.
In Galapagos upended tortoise.
In Japan & Faroe Islands  knifed the porpoise.
In Utah trapped mated raccoons.
In Congo caged baby baboons.
Norway & Iceland hunted whales.
In Iowa they crushed chick males.
In England torn apart was hunted fox.
At church gatherings they roasted ox.
In Maine boiled lobsters alive.
They advertised flesh on Channel 5.
Maryland taxes suffocated crabs.
Boston queen of cruel labs
In Korea they ate the dogs..
while in France they de-legged frogs
China and Manitoba
have tortured hogs.
In Littleton Colorado they poisoned
prairie dogs.
In Germany they choked
the geese.
In New Zealand
froze sheep too early fleeced.
In Canada they clubbed the seals.
In Ireland they killed the eels.
In Vietnam for bile they farmed bears.
In Alaska for pleasure they killed bears.
In Saskatchewan they made Mad Elk & Deer
by feeding to the living the parts of dead deer
In Wisconsin they separate cow mothers
from their daughters, from their brothers.
In College Park for Frank Perdue
UM taught skinning rabbits.
In Virginia from stolen skin
they made their riding habits.
Everywhere for slaughter animals bred
In Jerusalem at checkpoints they shot
donkeys dead.

Near the feedlots of Amarillo
They try to hit the armadillo

In Zimbabwe white males murder giraffes

In Chile rodeos roping, calf spines broken in half..

In Egypt they ate
old faithful slave camels.
In Mecca they slaughtered
countless millions of mammals

Botswana sells elephant murder licenses by

hunters of trophies.

S Africa allows lion murder

a cat trophy catastrophe.

Namibia allows the murder of leopards.

Australia for sheep has no good shepherds.

In Florida boats defin manatees.
In W. Virginia groundhogs
poisoned on the golfing tee.
50,000 mice and dogs in underground

labs

drowned at U of T.
In Cuba cut off eyes of shrimp
At Cornell they shocked the chimp.
In Australia clubbed kangaroo..
Hippo choked on tennis ball
at the Detroit Zoo.
At the stampede in Calgary
they create for calves a Calvary.
Kentucky horses die in barn fires.
Santa Anita horses break legs in the mire.
Water skiers maraud nests of powerless
floating loons.
Careless walkers smashed the nests
of terns in grassbraid dunes.
Bull fights they waged in Madrid Spain..
a most public brutal kind of pain..
Chanel for civet harmed the cat
but who torchtortured more than rat?
Ermine tongues to greased
traps in Siberia froze.
In Italy calves made veal..
.. especially loved.. flesh of rose.
Canada cuts millennial trees
while smashing their resident squirrels birds and bees.
Many hate her.. but none poach
the gentle little cockroach

US rodeo brutality is incredible.

In China nearly all beings edible.

In every war they animals bomb

from remote computer stations with aplomb..

Said one cow "I think they're coming
to feed us!"
"No by God! they're coming to eat us!"

Everywhere they're dismembered subdivided
drawn and quartered crucified.
This hell will end... heart by heart..
as each soul wills to do its part.

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Footnote:

dedicated to the life work of Alex Hershaft

vegan and peace activist

who was 9 when his Warsaw ghetto was

bombed.

Iowa method of extermination:

hatchery.mercyforanimals.org

Several lines added on Jan 28 2022