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Here's a poem about
battery farming.

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And battery farming is behind
most of the meat that we eat.

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And it's one of the
more unpleasant aspects

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of our society.

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We don't like to think about it.

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Every society has had things
they don't like to think about.

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But it's inhumane.

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And it produces tasteless meat.

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Two bad things about it.

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I make a reference in
this poem to the Hurons,

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which was an Indian
nation, who were constantly

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at war with the Iroquois.

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Virtually none of
the Hurons survive.

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The ones that didn't get
killed got forcibly adopted

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by the Iroquois.

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However, at the end
of their battles,

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they would eat their enemies,
on both sides, both the Hurons

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and the Iroquois
actually, thinking

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that they would become braver.

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The braver the enemy, the more
bravery you got into your body.

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Also, there's one
phrase I should explain,

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that I should explain
the spelling of anyway.

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I've got one phrase at the end
of the poem, dried in thyme.

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And I'm speaking about
the herb thyme, T-H-Y-M-E.

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Meat.

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My brother saw a
pig root in a field

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and saw too its whole
lovely body yield

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to this desire which
deepened out of need,

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so that in wriggling through
the mud and weed to eat and dig

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were one athletic joy.

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When we, who are the overlords,
destroy our ranging vassals,

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we can therefore
taste the muscle

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of delighted interest we make
into ourselves, as formerly,

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Hurons digested human bravery.

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Not much like this degraded
meat, this meal of something.

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Was it chicken, pork, or veal?

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It tasted of the
half life that we

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raise in high bright tombs,
which days and nights like days

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murmur with nervous
sound from cubicles.

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We're fed on treated slop.

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The living cells expand within
each creature forced to sit,

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cramped with its boredom
in its pile of shit

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until it is standard weight for
roast or bacon and terminated

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and its place is taken.

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To make this worth
a meal, you have

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to add the succulent liberties
it never had of leek or pepper

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fruiting in its climb.

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The redolent adventures
dried in thyme

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whose branches creep and
stiffened where they please,

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or rosemary which shakes
in the world's breeze.

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[APPLAUSE]

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