The Earth Does Not Belong To Us

Michelle Baker

A world of high cholesterol, diabetics, and lactose intolerance
A place where obesity is a pandemic and heart disease is a norm

“The American diet is healthy”
“Animals are treated humanely”
And “we treat nature ethically”
There could never be anything wrong.

I’ll ask you

Why should some animals be more important than others?
How can you love animals and still kill them?
Why should your life matter any more than theirs?
How can you humanely kill something that doesn’t want to die?

A modern day genocide

Dolphins, whales, and sea turtles mindlessly killed in by catch

Warehouses full of animals waiting to die

Living breathing beings slaughtered without a voice to fight back

Couldn’t there be something wrong?

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it

Animals are different but equal
And when the last tree has been cut
The last fish has been caught
And the last animal is killed

Then we will realize that there is something wrong.