Eat the creatures killed for sale Grow up into double-think
But never pull the pussy's tail Kiss the hamster, skin the mink
Eat the flesh from "filthy hogs" Never think of slaughter, dear
But never be unkind to dogs That's why animals are here
They only come on earth to die
So eat your meat and don't ask why
(From a poem which appeared in an article by Cora Diamond, "Eating Meat
and Eating People", _Philosophy_ (53), 1978, p. 472).