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Chapter 4.16 Poems and Limericks for Animal Rights Animal rights makes for good verse writing. Try your hand composing poems to get your messages across about animal rights - humour helps - and circulate them. Limericks and rhymes are relatively easy - and fun! You can also illustrate them. If you have not illustrated before, download some free painting software from the web to try as a starter. For more illustrations see Animal Rights Images and Illustrations. Limerick: Gaia There once was a planet with Gaia. Humanity wrecked it entire. It had species galore. None exist anymore. The whole was reduced to a pyre. Limerick: The Human Flaw There once was a species almighty, Its actions were useless and flighty: Climate change or pollution (over population, environmental degradation, species extinction, resources depletion...) It ne’er made a solution; The species did crash very mighty. Limerick: Gastronomy Our numbers increase pathological, So we kill animals maximal, methodical. But should we be willing This ceaseless killing Just pandering lust gastronomical? Limerick: Fat Animal We’re people living on fat. Don’t care a billion beasts get splat. Just want our grub and swallow it whole. Filling our bellies our only goal. We love fat, fat - and that’s that, that. Poem: How Many? How many lives in a fur coat? Many times your largest banknote; Add rejects not making the grade, Trashed by the friendly and pleasant fur trade. “Does society need to know? Cruel-blooded stats don’t make us dough. Silence! our motto. We're afraid Not to seem a friendly and pleasant trade." So coats are simply things to sell; The beasts in them “ne’er suffered hell”. Countless uncounted beasts betrayed, Cashed by the friendly and pleasant fur trade. Poem: Fuzzy Morality Evolution’s reach did spread Morality into everyone’s head; Countless aeons ago Out of Africa it did flow. Morality’s ultimate function: Its carrier’s genes’ reproduction, Through caring-relations To companions and strangers. Moral aid now to all men is given. By some to animals it is also striven, Expanding the circle to great and small, Man’s moral evolution encompassing all. Yet we live in a world that is fuzzy: Everything indefinite, elusive, muddy; So never claim oneness and clarity: Fuzzy morality is all you get. Limerick: Think Before You Do It Think before you bonk your wife. Every baby knackers life. Nature’s sick and subjugate, Pulverised by human weight. Dying forests, dying seas, the lot. So please don’t make another tot! Poem: Animal Blood The animal holocaust came trooping by; Everyone turned an eager blind eye - to the horror. Endless bundles of bloodless meat; No one could say no to such a treat. Was a show of human power - and man‘s darkest hour. Rhyme: How Many Horses do People Slaughter? How many horses do people kill? Typically for our tummies to fill, From 60 million horses worldwide One twelfth a year get boiled, roasted or fried; Asses three million and mules half a million score. And down our throats each year plunge more, and more, and more. Limerick: The Great Pig Sorrow A pig in despair tore his hair: “A billion dead pigs is unfair. It’s a porcine tragedy, A moral catastrophe. Doesn’t anyone fret or care?” People worldwide kill over a billion pigs annually. |
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