Imagine it,
\nforced into
\na container
\nto be shipped <\/p>\n
\u00a0Aboard a Matson
\nor Horizon ship, 7
\npigs oh yes
\ntheir trip<\/p>\n
They slip and slide,
\nno place to hide
\nIts no wonder that
\nso many tend to flip<\/p>\n
150 pigs packed in
\nlike sardines,
\nif only every one of you could see
\nThey get all hot and
\nbothered
\nBecause they cannot sweat
\nNo water and no food for them
\nSome will die, I bet
\nthey will die in abject agony
\nfrightened so much woe
\nBeing crushed together
\nAnd its a long long way to go<\/p>\n
From Oakland in California
\nto Hawaii
\nAnd as soon as they arrive
\nIts for the chop
\nThroats slit, hung up
\nbled out,cut up
\nCompletely torn a’sunder
\nThis vile trade
\nIt really has to stop<\/p>\n
Unsanitary conditions
\nSulphurous, to be sure
\nOffensive to just anyone
\nWho opens up the door
\nAnd is hit by shit and urine
\nand fear, great fear at large
\nThese animals are wilting
\nYou cannot camouflage
\nThe evil that’s abundant
\nThe shippers clearly are
\nInsensitive as is the shipping line
\nFor its too far<\/p>\n
To ship live creatures as they do
\nBlood money in their bank
\nMany die before they get there
\nHell fire at every flank
\nArriving, there’s no chance
\nto feed, its straight out and into
\nThe slaughterhouse the murder place
\nWhere very very few<\/p>\n
are anything but suffering
\nand to murder them like this
\nin front of one another
\nis so, taking the piss
\nHuman beings really are
\nthe lowest of the low
\nNo compassion of any fashion
\nany there you know
\nThey slit their throats
\nin front of one another
\nand their blood
\nstains the floor, the walls
\nthe air
\nImagine how they cope with it
\nThe agony together
\nthe torture,truthfully
\nit’s everywhere<\/p>\n
they have eyes, and ears
\nand can smell the deaths
\nOf their families and the way
\nthey taunt them, they must be aching
\nTo turn around and say
\nWhy, Why are you treating us?
\nso terribly today
\nBut most don’t they truly suffer
\nAnd for this are made to pay<\/p>\n
They Tear their hearts to smithereens
\nWatch and feel the blade
\nand hang aloft in total view
\nas if they’re on parade
\nand shake and shiver
\nin dire shock and then its
\noff to be
\ndunked in boiling water
\nTheir spines and hair to free<\/p>\n
Some get there yes still alive
\nand kicking
\nbut in a soup of their own
\nheads they die
\nLive shipments should be banned
\nits bloody terrible
\nand it only increases the profit
\nFor the guy
\nwho ships them
\nthe sad farmer who has raised them
\nBut can just as easily push them
\nout the door
\nHe can see them squashed into a vile container
\nAnd know that its shipped and those poor sad things are sore<\/p>\n
But he turns around and goes home
\nto his family
\nnot a word he just collects his fee
\nA bastard there’s no doubt who knows
\nwhat its about
\nBut who reckons he can sleep
\nyea real soundly.<\/p>\n
everybody mixed up in this trade
\nhas guilt
\nlook into their eyes you can soon see
\nAn arrogance a glazing over of their eyes
\nMaking money but free of sin, hardly
\nThey will get, their come uppence
\nof that I’m certain
\nKarma balances things but its a shame
\nThe pigs must go through all of this
\nexcruciating terror which does it truly does
\nour hearts inflame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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