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Animals Branded And Castrated Without Anesthesia
Mammals unanesthetized and castrated by force,
with numbered tags stapled in the ears,
babies having sharp antisucking devices
in their noses,
steers with red hot irons branded
In drought, left to die of thirst,
abandoned, stranded.
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Footnote:
Conscientious objectors have been labeled deserters, cowards, yellow etc. In the Civil War, one officer ordered another ofcr to brand on the face a soldier who tried to escape forced killing of other beings. This branding has been forced on quintrillions of cows, sheep etc.
