Digitalized tracking numbers

A living breathing soul becomes a commodity
A bar code on a label in its ear
Stamped on with a sort of punch
An item code and a digital crunch
A universal product code
Watch out it gives the load
A living breathing soulful cow
Is of course degraded by the hour
This is how we classify
Every true commodity

Sales in sales out stock control
Operational for every soul
This is how we demonstrate
And digitalize and stow of late
This is what we are doing to the living
Souls today
Bar codes and computer readers
Set it out and record the way
Everything is noted down
And listed on the screen
This is what we are doing now
And it really is obscene.

Its all about improbity
Stock records and the place to be
Tracking tracing where its been
What its fed on red or green
What its drug count has become
Whether 100 per cent GM ,or some
Which farm it came from originally
And its antibiotic history

A cow is born and what we do
Is create a commodity all life through
All the data will appear
On the ticket in its ear
Respective buyers they can see
Their statistical codes
Fed digitally