Thanksgiving dinner and cat food, our patriotic duty

Where does mama's turkey come from? What's "premium" cat food made of? What's a choice and what's a lie?

A scream rings down the metallic halls

another one killed

in the humane slaughter house

at least it lived on grass for 11 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds a day

 

There's a hand mixed in with the entrails

oh well it was just another immigrant

there's another one waiting for the hope of a white country

and USD$2 an hour at the humane disassembly line

we'll just get another soon enough

 

This is what we do for the "choice of meat" they tell us

stuffing us with corporate propaganda

like the turkey on mamas thanksgiving table

of the gullet of a foie gras goose

locked in our patriotic cage of red white and blue

as we wait our turn to be someone else’s leather chair

 

Ignore our moral obligations

to be equal and treat others to it as well

no matter the barrier of sex, class, race, gender and species

though the infrastructure of capital slaughterhouses

force our dreams to the knife with throats bared

 

Revolution, revolution

called out at the cadaver savaging plant

a little too late

since the cat's eating the left over’s of the turkey in the oven

that's being made for you to eat

and be deceived

to look away from life’s options

 

On the count of

one...

two...

three...

choose

your life or

the one for sale

Author's Note

The word "mama" was not stolen from the corporate whore that is known as PeTA, I was listening to My chemical romance and didn't know about the "Meaner than mama" PeTA game until after I wrote this.

Happy vegan Thanksgiving!

Reviews

[Silver_Moon]

Thank you for entering the contest. :)
Dark but, at the present, true. Not just in the US but all around the world.
Nice one. :)

[Fabian G. Franklin]

this was great, strained my eyes on the fine print but worth it