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Chicken in a Cage

I - 'm inside.
N - o room.
S - uffering with
A - ss wounds,
N - o beak.
I - nhumane torture
T - raumatizes me.
Y - are you doing this?


-- SunnysideTroll

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

Mountain Lion -- by D.H. Lawrence


Climbing through January snow, into Lobo Canyon
Dark grow the spruce-trees, blue is the balsam, water sounds
...still unfrozen, and the trail is still evident.

Men!
Two men!
Men! The only animal in the world to fear!

They hesitate.
We hesitate.
They have a gun.
We have no gun.

Then we all advance, to meet.

Two Mexicans, strangers, emerging out of the dark and snow
...and inwardness of the Lobo valley.
What are they doing here on this vanishing trail?

What is he carrying?
Something yellow.
A deer?

Que tien, amigo?
...Leon---

He smiles foolishly, as if he were caught doing wrong
And we smile, foolishly, as if we didn't know.
He is quite gentle and dark-faced.

It is a mountain lion,
A long, long slim cat, yellow like a lioness.
Dead.

He trapped her this morning, he says, smiling foolishly.

Lift up her face,
Her round, bright face, bright as frost.
Her round, fine fashioned head, with two dead ears;
And stripes in the brilliant frost of her face, sharp, fine dark
...rays,
Dark keen, fine rays in the brilliant frost of her face,
Beautiful dead eyes.

Hermoso es!

They go out towards the open;
We go on to the gloom of Lobo.
And above the trees I found her lair,
A hole in the blood-orange brilliant rocks that stick up, a little
...cave.
And bones, and twigs, and a perilous ascent.

So, she will never leap up that way again, with the yellow flash
...of a mountain lion's long shoot!
And her bright, striped frost-face will never watch any more,
...out of the shadow of the cave in the blood-orange rock,
Above the trees of the Lobo dark valley-mouth!

Instead, I look out
And out to the dim of the desert, like a dream, never real;
To the snow of Sangre de Cristo mountains, the ice of the
...mountains of Picoris,
And near across at the opposite steep of snow, green trees
...motion-less standing in snow, like a Christmas toy.

And I think in this empty world there was room for me and a
...mountain lion.
And I think in the world beyond, how easily we might spare a
...million or two humans
And never miss them.
Yet what a gap in the world, the missing white frost-face of
...that slim yellow mountain lion!

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

perched on ledges,
erudite pigeons
recite high coo

by CoffeehousePoet
on www.vegtalk.org

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

"Meat is bad for you,"
said the young vegan, lighting
up a cigarette.

Ken Duddle
on www.poetrysoup.com/poems/short/vegan

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

The Greater Good


We sew the eyes of monkeys
Burn the skins of rabbits,
Drill holes into the brains of cats,
We slice into mice,
Put pigs hearts into chimps,
And torture and suffocate rats.

We take babies from mothers
Slaughter mothers whilst pregnant,
Fetus' twitch on the floor.
We slice throats of the conscious
Take the lives of newborns
Then hack them up with a saw!

We decide we can hurt
Any animal we choose
For the 'greater good' of man
Because they cannot scream out
They cannot TELL ALL
We arrogantly believe that we can.

We cause pain to the silent
For the sake of our bellies
Torture and slaughter for fun
We rip out hearts,
Of the animals in labs
Then try to 'condone' what we've done!

'Custom can resign us,
to any atrocity'
George Bernard Shaw rightly said,
So, it seems we'll keep on
Torturing and slaughtering,
Till all fellow creatures are dead.

- posted by meign
on www.vegtalk.org

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

deer!
the kids
whisper

- posted by Lauren Krauze
on www.facebook.com/shortsweetpoems/

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

grocery shopper
likes orangutans ---
boycotts margarine

- SunnysideTroll

*See what you can do to help them out too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixyckK1C03s

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

countless live sharks
git their fins cut off
--- Bloody Hell!

- BloodyHell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0p_LdfgmxQ

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

White Lie

"You can only get
enough calcium
by drinking milk."

Dairy requires
removal of calves
from their mothers.

Hundreds of thousands
of unwanted calves
are slaughtered yearly.

Not Necessary!
Enough calcium
can be gotten from:

Swiss chard, broccoli,
sweet potatoes, kale,
spinach (cooked),

dried apricots,
oranges, kiwis,
raspberries & more.


-- SunnysideTroll




Check out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTGe41A8Vo

https://saveourbones.com/osteoporosis-milk-myth/

https://www.healthaliciousness.com/arti ... tables.php

https://www.healthaliciousness.com/arti ... fruits.php

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

Check the foods individually if you REALLY are interested because oranges, for example, do not contain sufficient calcium to be useful as a source unless you eat something like 15 cups a day. The fortified foods such as tofu and orange juice have to have a good source of calcium for the concentration, which generally leads to a animal based supply.[/quote]



The amount of calcium that is in a certain food is irrelevant. What matters is whether or not the human body can absorb the calcium that is present in that food. The human body can easily absorb the calcium that is present in all the foods that are mentioned in this poem. Cow's milk is for their calves.

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

*NOTE: I've edited the 3 lined poem about liking orangutans and the poem that is entitled "White Lie". I then deleted the "Coffeehouse Poet" signature from them and added Sunnyside Troll's signature instead. Both characters are me anyway. I've deleted these poems from the VegTalk forum where I originally posted them.

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"WE ALL LIVE DOWNSTREAM" -- bumper sticker slogan

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With friends like Guido, you will not have enemies for long.

“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
Arthur Schopenhauer

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

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"With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life.
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle
“Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein