Meating Need
Don’t set an
Amazonian ranch hand
To cut or burn the
rain forest for beef,
As animal
husbandry is the thief
Of earth. Pork and
mutton degrade the land
No matter how organically
they’re farmed.
Then, however well-tended,
there must be
The trauma of the
slaughterhouse, To see
A grassy grazing
meadow is to be charmed
By an idyll,
concealing the bolt gun
And letting blade.
Also, there’s the methane.
Yet the world can
be fed all its protein
Once precision
fermentation’s begun,
And three quarters
of farmland reconciled
To a natural
carbon reserving wild.
D. A.
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