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Compromised Food: A Response to Omnivore’s Dilemma
When I receive
that plate
of the grilled-to-perfection
rotisserie chicken
succulent meat
a warm cozy fire
on a cold, winter night
Or the juicy bacon
I salivate
over with the mere
thought of
A dog
in the southern heat
I now know
I compromise
my morals
values
and beliefs
towards animal cruelty.
For that chicken
was a captive
in a lonely wire cage
the size of a book
her breast
I now dissolve
in my mouth
was rubbed against
that wire
until it balded and bled
Her last days
were of starvation
and thirst
in order
to stimulate the egg
I ate this morning
And the pig
whose strips of muscle and
fat are now crawling
into my greasy hands
like a parasite
hardly even saw the light of day
Fed corn
until its belly touched the
ground
in order
to get that fat
my teeth now grind
No
I have not become
a vegan
non-showering
animal rights activist
but now I know cruelty
and the blindness to cruelty
when lean strips of bacon
cost under a dollar
For the money I invest
in the meat of an animal
is the money that went in
to the welfare of that animal.
So tell me
is a
local
organic
free-range
edible animal
worth my money?
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