To go vegan, or not to go vegan, that is the question:
by Katya Simkhovich
Whether ’tis nobler in the kitchen to cook
the products of animals and of the like
or to take arms against a society of omnivores
and by opposing, uphold ethics. To buy, to eat,
no more, and by a meal, to say we end
the guilt, and inhumanity
that meat and dairy eating is heir to. ’Tis a idealistic world,
devoutly to be wish’d. To cook, to eat,
To eat, perchance to consume responsibly. Aye, there’s the rub,
for in that meal, what immoralities may lie,
when we have thrown off this bliss of ignorance,
must give us awareness. There’s the facts,
that make calamity of so many a meal:
for who would bear the sick and sad animals,
the CAFO’s wrong, the business man’s greed,
the pangs of rising fossil fuel consumption, used in great amounts for meat and dairy production,
the insolence of Agribusiness, and the wrongs
that patience try of the state of the food industry,
when he himself might his meal make,
with responsible food selection? Who would bear,
to chew and swallow under a cloud of doubt,
but that the hope of better food,
that seemly unnatainable concept,
that millions hear not of, puzzles the consumer
and makes us rather question these pop tarts
than buy more than we ought to?
Thus, conscience does make prudent consumers of us all,
and thus, the native hunger for meat,
is sicklied over with the bright light of humanity
and enterprises of animal abuse and profit,
with this regard, their target markets turn awry,
and lose the name of evil.
vegans unite!