Prying the Meat From Our Cold, Dead Hands

When you said 

you’d rather die 

than eat a bean burrito,

I thought you were

being figurative 

But seven hundred

thousand annual 

heart attacks 

made me realize 

you have accepted 

the odds of the

American diet 

and are still willing 

to roll the dice 

As more and more studies

show the direct link 

between animal agriculture 

and deforestation,

water pollution, 

and climate change,

it becomes increasingly 

hard to say 

you didn’t know 

Yet still, you seem

to think death

(not just theirs, 

but our own),

is worth the taste

30 Aug 2019