Arsenic and chicken

how many real people
Now Have to be
Threatened with what is adversity
With toxins,and poisons
Yes Maybe you
Don’t know them
Can’t see them
Whatever they do
You don’t know their names
Or, how they tick
So what does it matter
If somebody’s sick

Has a metallic taste
Or cramp that is salt
Losing their hair
It must be their fault
Is it imagine
Arsenic no smell
No flavour to speak of
The toxin from Hell.

And how come it’s out there
It’s in the groundwater
It’s in the soil
Your son and your daughter
It just makes my blood boil
And all the time they were
Adding the stuff
To increase the weight
Have you heard enough?

It’s banned here I hear
But in the U S
They are still adding it
Despite, the stress
Put in the chicken feed
What can we say
A CAFO holds 20 to 30 thousand
And they pay
A lot for the privilege
Of being alive
Forced into their ocean of feathers
They thrive
Just about lost in the hell house
Where they
Are neglected and tortured
In every way

Of course there’s an order
When pecking begins
They truly suffer
For all of our sins
Pecked till they bleed
So many die
Putting on weight
In the wink of an eye
It’s not what the chicken wants
They want to be
Alive for as long as they can
But then we
Want to make money
Which everyone does
So its add the food additive
And feel the buzz

The tragedy is there is arsenic around
They say it’s organic
But it’s not
And they’ve found
How it goes inorganic
In manure, oh dear
The stuff spread as waste on the soil
Yet more fear
The water table the toxins they spread
Arsenic gets everywhere
Put that to bed!
When it’s inorganic
It’s terribly vile
And Tyson’s stopped using it
Now for some while
But others they carried on
Nobody cared
There’s arsenic in chicken
From CAFO’s

Whose scared?

I am for one
Why suffer this shit
And the fact that in essence
Most don’t care one bit
Non organic chickens from CAFO’s beware
In the US it can be just anywhere
It’s a indictment on humanity
And the faceless and nameless
Yes yes you and me

and I am a vegan
But spreading the shit
On land growing vegetables
How does that sit
In our psyche. I wonder
No ones exempt
My plea really you have to make the attempt
At going organic
Trying it out
Yes it is ominous
There’s little doubt
People cut corners
The corporates they
Don’t care a monkeys about us
Okay
So we have to think more
Select what we buy
Don’t trust the farmers
And now you know why