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Who's Got Milk? - Beware!
by David Pekrul
copyright 05-29-2005


Age Rating: 10 to 127

 
Cookies and a glass of milk
a child’s treat for being good
pure and wholesome
the way it should be.

Holsteins grazing the rolling hills
dots of black and white
contented cows
coming to the milking pens
at the appointed times
doing what is expected of them
then returning to graze at their leisure
until the next time.

That’s the way it should be.

But beware of the California Dairy Farmer
keeping the herd in pens
unable to roam
living in dirt in the summer
and mud in the winter
kept in a steel corral
a feed-lot without a slaughter-house
Death-Row without an execution.

When one is sick and unable to perform
it is dragged from the herd
and left to die under the hot sun
alone, in pain, suffering
until death gives it release.

I saw one die and asked why?
“Show some mercy
and give it a bullet or a needle
don’t let it suffer
let it go in peace.”

“Why waste the money?”
the farmer asks,
“It will eventually die
it has done its job
it is of no more use.”

Enjoy your cookies and milk
but ask yourself
Who’s Got Milk?
The California Dairy Farmer?
Beware!


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05-16-2006 Shannon W.    

I love milk and I love cookies. Well some cookies, I am the pickisty person. I can't have to many chocolate chips or too little.
This is a list of cookies I dont like:
chocolate chip cookies with too many chips
peanut butter
any cookie with fruit or too much chocolate or too much fill in or creamy stuff
much more too.

These are the cookies I like:
Soft sugar cookies, CANT be hard
soft oatmeal NO rasins
warm chocolate chip cookies with hardly any chips
and the butter cookies my grandma makes.
02-01-2006 Richard Reed Jr    

This is cold-blooded murder or insanity. What rational human does things like this? Next question are humans as rational as they rationalize? I also grew up with many dairy farms and milk. cows in Pennsylvania. I can only pray that our farmers didn't and aren't doing that!
Your poem was written in a very vivid way which would pull at anyone's heart if they had one.
I'm supposed to offer advice on how to improve this poem, but in all honesty, I can't think of anything. this was superb, even if you did steal my death-row phrase (only joking!).

Thanks for a great write,

Rich
06-01-2005 Brian Dickenson    

This is horrendous. How can farmers over there get away with it. Here in The UK they would be in deep trouble. Apart from the law prosecuting them the animal welfare activists would be starting a vigilante attack.
I worked on my brother-in-laws farm as a child, even in those days animals were treated well.
Sorry to rant David but you hit a nerve. Well done.
05-31-2005 Jean George    

I grew up on a dairy farm in New England and I never saw anything like this...I am astounded that behavior like this hasn't caused an uproar. Farming has changed a lot from the days when I was taught to care for the animals in my charge before I cared for myself...That was "law" on the farm when I was a kid...Do people have ethics or morals or any sense of decency anymore? Thank you for writing this, even though I shall have nightmares.
05-29-2005 Anthony Lane Stahlhut    

You said I sounded mad! You have good reason here! If they can't hurt animals in the movies why can they do it in real life, maybe the animal protection agency would like to talk to the dairy farmers? Thanks for your viewpoint...I agree! Anthony
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