New Zealand they are at it too
\nLive exports
\nMoral turpitude
\nThousands of pregnant cows aboard
\nAnd a crew of 43
\nFrom Napier to Tangshan
\nIn China
\nWhat a journey
\nThe cruelty personified
\nIt\u2019s just what shippers do<\/p>\n
Thrown about in storm force winds
\nThose animals bruised and broken
\nJust imagine the panic
\nA great god had spoken
\nThrust upon each other
\nFrightened half to death
\nKnowing not what was happening
\nAnd fighting for their breath<\/p>\n
Pitch black dark
\nThe ocean
\nboiling at that time
\nAll aboard the Panamanian vessel
\nThere\u2019s no rhyme
\nor reason
\nTo be out here
\nExcept the Chinese need
\nAll these cows to murder
\nFor the people who will feed<\/p>\n
A voyage to being slaughtered
\nAnd man to make his killing
\nA Container ship remodelled
\nEveryone was willing
\nInto a livestock carrier
\nNew Zealand take a bow
\nNow you are in the spotlight
\nAsk yourselves now how<\/p>\n
You sleep at night
\n41 crew and almost 6000 souls
\nDrowning in a melee
\nOf death assuming roles
\nOf utter insignificance
\nWhat a way to die
\nStruggling in pitch darkness
\nListen to them cry<\/p>\n
The farmers have their money
\nNew Zealand is sleeping sound
\nOut there in the ocean
\nThey were China bound
\nCows and sheep all pregnant
\nCompassion none at all
\nNew Zealand and Australia
\nbreaking every rule<\/p>\n
It\u2019s underhand and wrong
\nTo ship live animals this way
\nSubjecting them to horrors
\nAlmost every day
\nThese are living breathing worrying
\nSouls we disregard
\nFemales, mothers wondering
\nWhy are their lives so hard<\/p>\n
If there is a god above
\nHathor ought to know
\nWhat farmers and what shippers
\nDo
\nThe live exports that grow
\nEver bigger by tHe shipload
\nAnd they sleep at night
\nTucked up in their swaddling
\nWhen I know it isn\u2019t right<\/p>\n
Martyrdom is evident
\nCriminality
\nThey are all complicit
\nShipping females on the sea
\nAiding and abetting
\nMalpractice it just feels
\nWrong from every aspect
\nAnd this voyage reveals<\/p>\n
A lack of contrition
\nA stubbornness to feel
\nSome people are just obdurate
\nSomehow they do reveal
\nA lack of care and duty
\nTo the animals as they
\nSuffer in their hundreds
\nEvery moment of every day<\/p>\n
Respect a word thats seldom
\nCombined with animals who
\nAre shipped around the world
\nAnd few now take the view
\nThat living breathing soulful cows
\nAnd sheep who think and dream
\nShould be given due respect
\nMore so than it would seem<\/p>\n
For me an animal must have rights
\nIt\u2019s a miracle alive
\nThe irreverence we give them
\nWhether or not they survive
\nTheir insured so shippers
\nWill get paid
\nEither way you see
\nAnimals become victims
\nWhen exported off by sea<\/p>\n
Neglected that\u2019s for certain
\nUnder valued too
\nHumiliated it goes without saying
\nWhat long voyages do
\nInsulting and outrageous
\nInjurious for sure
\nIn this case they have
\nall lost their lives
\nWhich the world at large ignore<\/p>\n
Writing here it\u2019s a tearful time
\nThere\u2019s no honour anymore
\nWhat ought to be done
\nAnd what was done
\nNobody is sure
\nDid they get a Bounden duty
\nWere we obligated to
\nSave them from the maelstrom
\nNo that is my view<\/p>\n
100 miles off japan
\nThe typhoon raging through the sky
\nEverything went haywire
\nAnd no one to watch them die
\nA Torrent it exploded
\nMan and beast were lost
\nA maelstrom in the making
\nAnd who would count the cost<\/p>\n
New Zealand ceases exporting
\nAlive alive oh
\nThe didn\u2019t have the empathy
\nThey just let these ships go
\nAll these frantic animals
\nStanding all the way
\nHell on earth for animals
\nWho always have to pay<\/p>\n
LIVE EXPORTS an anathema
\nMost never make it they
\nAre thrown about and injured
\nAnd shippers think okay
\nAs long as some of them make it
\nIt\u2019s worth the shipping, they
\nShould spend the voyage sat by their side
\nYes all the fucking way<\/p>\n
Experience the undueness
\nThe deprivation they
\nSuffer in their deepest thoughts
\nEvery single day
\nThe unjustifiability
\nThe misjudgement of it all
\nIt\u2019s unfitting and inappropriate
\nAnd downright wrong to call<\/p>\n
And the heartlessness apparent
\nThe unfeeling impassive way
\nDry eyed and stone hearted
\nThey make so many pay
\nIt\u2019s remorseless and inflexible
\nNo quarter given here
\nLoad them up and ship them off
\nAlong with all that fear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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