six of one, twelve dozen of another
I was driving Truck across America. I was at a truck stop one day, and
filling up my tanks. A cattle truck was next to me. As I stood holding the
nozzle, listening to the diesel fill the tanks, I stared at the cattle truck
without thinking.
Hey, man, a cow said to me.
Huh?
Hey - M A N ?
Can you get us out of here?
Of course it’s a crazy day dream.
The cattle truck smelled of shit, and death.
I thought about that. I’d seen cows playing, and sleeping all across America,
and now I was watching them being carted off to slaughter.
I gave up meat on the spot.
Then one night I was driving alone on a long stretch of unlit road. A truck
pulled up next to me with thousands of chickens in cages.
Hey man, the chickens were saying. Can you get us out of here?
Then another truck pulled up alongside of me. There were thousands more
chickens.
Any delusions I’d been harboring that eating chicken was vegetarian was
pretty much shot to hell. I’ve been animal free since then.
On the down side, Hitler was a vegetarian. So what the fuck, you know?
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Okay,
Father Luke
