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Double Standard in Animal Law
To keep in a hot car a beagle
is in most states illegal
but since some humans do
animals eat
it's not unlawful to keep
pigs and cows in freezing or 105
degree truck heat
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footnote;
am in the process of merging saiom2
with saiom... this poem was published a year
ago on saiom2
comment
patriciajj's comment was
'That double standard is baffling—the disconnect between the suffering we'd never inflict on a pet and what we eat'