Misogyny sadly
\ncomes to the fore
\nFor me pregnant cows
\nExported ignore
\nEverything pointing to compassion
\nAnd grace
\nLive exports are crass
\nAnd we all have to face<\/p>\n
The fact that Australia
\nPlans very badly
\nShipping live cows
\nThat arrive there sadly
\nSickly and exhausted
\nAnd not up to the task
\nThey shipped the wrong breed
\nThat\u2019s if you ask<\/p>\n
Females by sea
\nShipped in holds
\nPregnant too
\nWhat part of that puzzle
\nDoesn\u2019t ring true
\nOther than shippers
\nWhose empathy stinks
\nMothers in labour
\nI see the chinks<\/p>\n
If most of you don\u2019t
\nIt\u2019s churlish and wrong
\nThey need to be resting
\nAnd not on a long
\nStrenuous and fearful
\nVoyage on the sea
\nAway from their homeland
\nWhich is where they should be<\/p>\n
This is a man thing
\nIf you ask me
\nHow can men realise
\nAbout pregnancy
\nHow can they dare to ship
\nCows in this way
\nOn their legs in a hold
\nEvery fucking day<\/p>\n
Off to Sri Lanka
\nImagine their fear
\nThey are with baby
\nIsn\u2019t that clear
\nThe rigour the desolate
\nFears mothers get
\nHoled up in some ship
\nThe story is set<\/p>\n
Far from fine in my book
\nWellard seemingly
\nTalks up figures and balance sheets
\nAnd accountability
\nIt\u2019s profit without prophets
\nAround to spread good cheer
\nAnd so we see the ladies dying
\nMany Of fear<\/p>\n
Imagine that
\nshipped all that long way
\nIt\u2019s about the dairy need.
\nSri Lanka wants
\nLots of fresh milk
\nFor them
\nTo succeed
\nFor me again its judgement
\nThey have coconuts by the score
\nBut want to drink fresh cows milk
\nIf I could just implore<\/p>\n
The management to consider
\nCows milk for a while
\nImporting pregnant animals
\nIt is off the dial
\nAustralia is malevolent
\nIt\u2019s thoughtlessness appears
\nGreater than its caring
\nAnd so creates the tears<\/p>\n
I cry for all those female cows
\nAbandoned on the sea
\nPining for their grassy homes
\nAnd existing dangerously
\nShipped like sacks of potatoes
\nLiving breathing souls
\nThe fear the true chaotic state
\nThe lack of true controls<\/p>\n
What is irregularity
\nA voyage across the sea
\nBeing crushed together
\nIt\u2019s is slovenly
\nTurbulence and ferment
\nWhat is a shambolic time
\nAnd shipping pregnant cows around the
\nWorld it is a crime<\/p>\n
And many die before their time
\nMarshalled so to say
\nBy what I see as uncaring sods
\nArrogantly they pay
\nTheir dues and then abandon
\nThe pregnant cows who must
\nSuffer what is tougher
\nThan a shipments cut and thrust<\/p>\n
And when the cattle get to
\nDestination
\nFarmers there
\nThrow their hands up
\nTempers rising
\nInto the hot air
\nThe animals are suffering
\nThey are diseased as well
\nweakened by the pregnancy
\nAnd the stress and ofcourse the swell<\/p>\n
Standing in a ships hold
\nRocked about all day
\nGoodness knows what foods on offer
\nAll the bloody way
\nAcross the ocean just imagine
\nHow we ourselves feel
\nStruggling to just get by
\nWithout a proper meal<\/p>\n
Travelling is tiresome
\nBeing in distress
\nIn physical pain
\nThe torment the torture
\nIt can press
\nDown on you and make you feel
\nMuch weaker than before
\nIn the throes of labour pains
\nHow can one ignore<\/p>\n
The different smells the mustiness
\nThe smoke the fumes the reek
\nThe different sounds loud speakers
\nEvery day of every week
\nThe wind outside you hear it
\nThe splashing of the waves
\nAnd being in this hell hole
\nSurrounded by the knaves<\/p>\n
Who come and fail to give
\nYou Water that you need
\nThe food is bloody horrible
\nAnd of course you bleed
\nStanding in your toilet
\nThe murkiness and gloom
\nThe sunless hold affects your eyes
\nIt\u2019s as if you are in a tomb<\/p>\n
It really does your head in
\nThe sloppy thinking here
\nBlokes ofcourse in Australia
\nHave arranged it it is clear
\nThey haven\u2019t got an earthly
\nUnderstanding of the way
\nPregnant cows feel
\nStanding up every flipping day<\/p>\n
Shitting where they are standing
\nAnd smelling it all, they
\nAre feeling somewhat sicker
\nThan they all felt yesterday
\nAgain live exports really
\nAre an anathema to health
\nIt\u2019s all about the man thing
\nAnd ofcourse business wealth<\/p>\n
The farmers in Australia
\nLost it years ago
\nThey haven\u2019t got an inkling
\nThey do not want to know
\nAbout how female animals feel
\nThey are philistines in fact
\nAs long as they get their money
\nThey just do not react<\/p>\n
And so our voyage of terror
\nEnds in a destination
\nMany of us sickly some dead
\nYes our salvation
\nBuried in Sri Lanka
\nAnd contracts and claims are high
\nFarmers here are losing us
\nAnd most do not know why<\/p>\n
The Aussies won\u2019t repay them
\nAnd we are sick like hell
\nThe voyage from farm to Freemantle
\nThat wasn\u2019t managed well
\nAnd then shipped to Colombo
\nIn all the heat and we
\nAre basically all buggered up
\nFor an eternity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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