To enjoy your life you have to be willing
to admit that your life is all about killing
animals, plants — all things delicious —
caring only that they are nutritious.
If we want to live,
something else has to give:
all other species.
Large and small beasties†
die for our gain —
LIFE is pure pain
atop the food chain.
*Human
beings constitute .00018 percent of Earth’s non-marine biomass.
— Wired,
October 31, 2011
†"...the
question is not, Can they reason?
nor, Can they talk?
but, Can they suffer?" — JeremyBentham
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CORRECTION: Last Friday's Daily Doggerel, No. CLXII, Gimme That (VERY) Ol' Time Religion, contained a typo: "perbation" should have read "perturbation". Theatrical Cement Company regrets whatever perbation this error may have caused our reader(s). Corrected text.