We have to eat to sustain our bodies functions
is a simple statement of fact to make.
But watching my son having fun fishing
at a fish farm where thousands are stocked.
As family members catch and kill each creature
without a care or thought was a notable feature.
This made me ponder the way we prepare meat
a never ending mass production line.
An insatiable hunger for these meat products
man has always been a carnivorous being.
Through out his short but turbulent existence
the animal flesh the one irresistible persistence.
Though I have eaten my fare share of animal meat
rarely have I thought of their slaughter.
The trauma they suffer I cannot understand
knowing I could not physically harm them.
Yet willing to let others carry out the deed
so at home or in a restaurant I happily feed.
I have not often thought about the meat I eat. But watching people fishing and catching them then with small clubs killing them, it did make me think. The old saying ‘Out of site out of mind’ seemed to fit my thoughts. As we consume vasts quantities of meat and somebody has to slaughter these animals. But people do also enjoy their fishing and shooting of birds. I know I could not do it, I get upset if I squash a spider. Am I a Wimp or a person who does have a conscience?
The Foureyed Poet.
