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Nonviolent Survival
by Amanda BullingtonIf we can easily survive nonviolently, then
why do
we take
animals
insides
for food?
Instead, why not condition ourselves to
meals made
of soy, so we
dont employ
human
superiority
Upon our Earths fellow creations?
We worry about recycling paper to refrain
from killing
trees, but please,
before you
bite into
the hamburger
you love so dearly,
realize that by
substituting something
Just as tasty, you could save a life.
And remember
next time people
begin comparing
fetuses to babies:
animals feel the
same pain when their
young are
continually
taken away
and baked
into your
birthday
cakes, in
celebration
of your life.
03/25/2006 Posted on 03/26/2006
Copyright © 2025 Amanda Bullington
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 08/17/17 at 09:17 PM I like the poem and understand the point. I've just wondered from time to time how plants feel when torn from the or boiled or cooked some other way to our satisfaction. Oh I know it's stupid but it is I quiet possible it is I who is stupid for not understanding their language. And what will we do when we meet the first creatures from a planet where plants rule and suck the blood from creatures that look and speak like us? |
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