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Apprentice Butchers Memoir ::Explicit::

(The Lamb) My lungs empty, no longer inflate This timid mind, cannot feel hate I’m so confused don’t understand money grazing the fields was my milk and honey Flails my skin, keeps everything tight Slices out my heart, this very night I’m terrified here without a clue Helpless and lost but what can I do Gathers me close, cuts into ribbons I’m already dead, that’s a given You bleed me out I cannot object My life is over onto the next (Me) Am I evil I am man Am I evil I’m a man Am I evil They where only lambs Am I evil Yes fu-ck it goddamn in hindsight I am By David Kavanagh

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Terry Flood

Date: 1/22/2022 5:02:00 PM

I’m a self confessed hypocrite. I would never harm an animal but I feel no guilt at eating meat. We have canines, they come from God or evolution, take your pick. Almost all higher animals eat lower animals, it’s how it is, we just don’t hunt them down. If carrots were bulging with Vitamins B12 and K we could live on them… and celery. Yum! Terry. P.S. I lied, I feel some guilt… but God made them taste SO good.

David Kavanagh
Date: 1/23/2022 4:19:00 AM

He sure did make them taste good Terry, and when man harnessed fire they tasted even better, killing the creatures is not a pleasant experience but a necessary evil, so I keep telling myself, but no matter what way I look at it, the methods we used in the 80s where crude and cruel, and don’t let anyone tell you any different, cheers David

Tom Cunningham

Date: 1/15/2022 2:33:00 PM

We all enjoy our meat but give little thought as to how it ends up neatly packaged in cellophane on the supermarket shelves. After reading my lims Jenna's going vegan. If she reads this she'll be vegan for life lol. Tom

David Kavanagh
Date: 1/15/2022 3:02:00 PM

Jenna probably did read this one, but I do understand why people choose not to comment, it’s bleak and blunt I think your Limericks probably sparked this one off lol, cheers David

David Kavanagh
Date: 1/15/2022 2:57:00 PM

Really is enough to put some people off meat Tom, when 16 years old and you end up in an abattoir serving an apprenticeship you really ask yourself these questions about it being an evil occupation, it’s pretty brutal but if you last the first day or two, and not everyone does, you do get used to it, your comment is true, people forget or probably don’t want to know the reality of being a carnivore, I still eat meat by the way, just not mince lol, cheers David