Some of my otherwise brilliant and productive friends
(Like scoundrels and their flags) take final refuge in
Character assassinations
They ignore the issue and deny the relation between
Our consumption and brutality

You can go ahead and roll your eyes
And marginalize me
Play on my insecurities and
You can feign ignorance
But you're not stupid, you're just selfish
And you're a slave to your impulse

And I kinda thought we all shared common threads
In that we gravitated here to challenge
The conventions we've been fed
By a culture that treats creatures like machines
And if you buy that shit then how long 'till it's me
Who serves as your commodity?

Through, institutionalized violence and opression of workers
And women raped by sexism and
Do you still insist
On feigning indignance to reason?
To collective self-interest?
I'll call you on your shit, please call me on mine
Then we can grow together
And make this shit-hole planet better in time
So why not consider someone else
Stop consuming animals!