Industrialised farming
\nHas been the way to go
\nMassive sheds of animals
\nThe numbers grow and grow
\nIn Herefordshire for example
\nMore chickens than humans now
\nAnd scattered across our countryside
\nMany more and how
\nsome 800 mega farms
\nLike those in the US
\nHuge amounts of animals
\nIn a lot of stress
\nCaptives YES all kept inside
\nNo grass around to chew
\nFamily farmers have lost it
\nWhat we had to do<\/p>\n
Was build great sheds
\nAnd slurry ponds
\nAnd house millions fold
\nOur countryside is already ruined
\nThe CAFO people sold
\nTheir souls and hearts to
\nMass produce
\nAnimals rights no more
\nIt\u2019s all now done by numbers
\nA brand new kind of law<\/p>\n
Exists inside these prisons
\nControl what it\u2019s about
\nArmies of victims suffering
\nOf that there is no doubt
\nThe stench of waste
\nThe feed indeed
\nThe anti biotic test
\nHoled up in their mini cells
\nBecause we know, what is best<\/p>\n
Huge great corporations
\nCompassion not a word
\nEmpathy of family farms
\nIt all just sounds absurd
\nGestation crates and economics
\nAnd profit sheets and more
\nThe balance sheet the stock exchange
\nIt\u2019s crowded on the floor<\/p>\n
And It\u2019s all regulated
\nThe air flow the water too
\nThe food they eat computerised
\nAnd, as for their loo
\nIt\u2019s all taken away to end up
\nIn the slurry pit
\nThe smell around these parts
\nThese days
\nIs hell smothered in shit<\/p>\n
Some of the great chicken sheds
\nHold one million or more
\nImagine all those chirping cocks
\nAnd hens out on the floor
\nThe shit the stench of urine
\nEverywhere you go
\nAll those pooping hens around
\nAdding to the flow<\/p>\n
Shamefulness apparent
\nAnd insincerity
\nArmies of great breathing masses
\nFill the sheds they be
\nScreaming in their chicken ways
\nTreading on each other
\nPecking out each other\u2019s feathers
\nEven attacking mother<\/p>\n
Pigs stuck in those gestation crates
\nNo nest oh no more
\nIt truly is a camp that\u2019s concentrated
\nAnd the floor
\nIs steeped in shit and grolly
\nIn ammonia too
\nIt wrestles with our breathing
\nAs such smells tend to do<\/p>\n
Bring back the small farmers
\nThat farm out in the green
\nThe fresh air and the sunshine
\nThat occupy each scene
\nAs children we were able
\nTo observe the animals there
\nAnd now they are locked in prisons
\nAnd have to pay for air<\/p>\n
With a great big scoop of tablets
\nIt\u2019s what the big boys do
\nTightly pack the armies
\nIn a living stew
\nOf bodies racked in agony
\nPained in many ways
\nTortured and presented
\nTo the market it\u2019s a phase<\/p>\n
It truly is the future
\nThe stench of things to come
\nThe diseases and the lameness
\nAnd really there are some
\nAnimals around today
\nCrippled as can be
\nNo sunshine on their poor old backs
\nJust the shit they roll in, we<\/p>\n
The consumers of this nonsense
\nWe stay far away
\nWe go off to the supermarkets
\nAnd observe the posh display
\nAll in pretty plastic packs
\nAnd loads of cellophane
\nWhich will end up in the oceans
\nAnd in landfills, so we gain<\/p>\n
Much from all this newness
\nThe scale of things ahead
\nMurder at the death camps
\nWhere river there run red
\nAutomation running at the clappers
\nEvery day
\nAnd millions of dead victims
\nThere to pass the time away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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