Live exports (and this trade turns my stomach to write about)

This may turn your stomach
its a vile and awful trade
it tears into one’s psyche
in blood and guts its laid
California of all places
that bans the sale of horse
for slaughter on this planet
but it happens there of course

CFIA feedlots
huge lots that export
foals live, foals to Canada
and onto Japan who thought
that it was right or possible
but in the dead of night
they are loaded on great silver trucks
we all know its not right

they are bound for Calgary
International Airport
for its there
these darling little sugar lumps
are shipped into despair
From the US into Calgary
that’s many many miles
may be it could take 3 days
their freedom it defiles

their force loaded and packed
in crates which can be rather tight
they haven’t sufficient headroom
which we know, just isn’t right
but the market stands a good price
they are going to Japan
they will end up in raw sushi
that is the big plan

they are healthy virile animals
who should run wild and free
instead they are rounded up and shipped
off to Calgary.
Imagine how they feel these horses
trucked across the state
around 700 every year
its the cruellest fate

imaginable for these sweet souls
who did nobody wrong
but the thought of such big money
its not where some belong
but clearly there’s a market
and, nod nod wink wink they
somehow get round the system
and it flourishes today.

raised like Kobe Beef
and sold then to japan
Canada exports them in small crates
how it began
who knows but it is happening
and in Japan these souls
are slaughtered everyone of them
and thus take on new roles

feeding the rich who eat out
at drinking restaurants there
situated in every place
they are now everywhere
Izakaya Japanese style
their raw pink flesh we see
a really fine pink morsel
a real dead delicacy

to some its known as “Sakura”
the cherry blossom theme
basashi is raw horse
but its no wondrous dream
its infact a nightmare
for these animals
Yakiniku or barbecue
as an ice cream
whose aware?

Horses healthy horses
must never ever be
sacrificed
in this dreadful way
no one needs to see
this tangle of corruption
the evil of desire
it does it turns the stomach
to know their fate is dire

to know they end up
in some, so called delicacy
swallowed down with god knows what
these were souls once free
Live exports they are sinful
these are living breathing souls
subjected to such torture
for what are human goals

earning money banking dollars
creating wealth abroad
its a really nasty attitude
that no one should afford
Canada is implicated here
is one of how
how does one get their head around this
living in the now

do you ever wonder
what its like to be a horse
shipped off to your slaughter
really from any source
it happens, of course its happens
but that doesn’t make it right
don’t you people have feelings
and a conscience
how do you sleep at night?

how do you come to terms
with this
the terror clearly must
be shared by every one who knows
and that is so unjust
Craig Downer Wild Horse
Conspiracy
a man who dedicates
his life really to
informing and exposing
these evil traits

that clearly ranchers sometimes
feel
welling up inside
the trade in horses for Japan
can give nobody pride
I know the world eats animals
of every description, they
slaughter them and eat them
billions of them, pay

with their lives it is what it is
for me a vegan, I
am mortified by human beings
and I do ask why
if they can put themselves into
the place of those that die
those slaughtered beasts
who feel so much
and clearly like them cry

tears that no one sees
or hears or wants to see or hear
but tears still they don’t want to die
they all live in such fear
every soul was created by a higher force
than man
given that pure energy
it was a perfect plan
each would have a place upon this planet
and be free
till man arrived to ruin it
and now of course we see

barbarity afore thought
heinous acts of woe
they fight and kill each other
so animals must know
their chance to live a full rich life
is harder by the day
for the human un kind is on their case
and clearly will find a way

of taking back advantage
of sacrificing life
of trading with the morons
who care less about strife
who profit from the fallen
who deal in what is wrong
whose bank balance is healthy
and who seemingly belong

in the positive
the successful
the men of high regard
who work their butts off
selling oh! the commercial world
is hard
they are seen as model citizens
but their hands are wet with grime
their hearts are all but broken
and can’t face the test of time

I wallow in such sadness
at the thought of those who die
those who have their lives cut short
those who can’t rely
on the freedom they were given
to roam and really be
wild and true to nature
for the world at large to see

Sakura cherry blossoms
that the Japanese admire
perfect in every facet
a kind of living fire
that has inspired so many
to write to paint to see
and now its deemed to so describe
raw horse Basashi