A lament about our (mis)treatment of Animals

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I have seen too much of this.......

OUR GREATEST SHAME
c 2006 Ed Billeaud

Have you seen their eyes, as you drive
Peeking out from inside of the trucks on the highway
Have you looked in their eyes, so terrified
Being taken to die on this merciless ride
Have you heard their cries as they're crammed inside
Do you shrug and sigh and just go on by?

Born into this world of pain
A living hell with no escape
So inhumane, evil, insane
How many billions have we slain?

And no one cares, and no one cries
Or even seems surprised while so many die
These stolen lives that our money buys
Surely binds and ties our souls demise
It's beyond belief, yet we have no grief
As we sink our teeth into those we eat
Have you seen their eyes as you drive
Peeking out from inside of the trucks on the highway?

Born into this world of pain
A living hell with no escape
So inhumane, evil, insane,
how many billions have we slain?
This lust for flesh our greatest shame