The Animals We Eat

What do we feed the animals we eat?

We eat what they ate when we eat.

We eat their pain and traumas too.

We eat their cellular memories too.

We kill the pigs then the pigs kill us.

We eat the cattle then the cattle kills us.

Their meat and fat… Our meat and fat…

Their merciless misery becomes ours too.

Their misery then becomes ours too-

little or no movement, drugged bodies-

little or no movement, drugged bodies-

theirs then ours, theirs then ours.

Deep down we know their pain is ours.

How do we treat the animals we eat?

Why don’t we have carnivore teeth to eat?

　

(Shelley Wilson- February 7, 2020)