Like Animals - Monica Richards

Why do we treat animals like animals?

Animals treat us so very well

The devoted way they serve us and protect us

When we’re nervous they really don’t deserve us

All we give them is Hell

Why do we treat animals like animals?

How can people be so inhumane?

What do we do we neglect them we do nothing

To protect them we reject them

Don’t expect them to complain

When will we stop treating them like animals?

How can human beings cause so much pain?

We ignore them or we beat them

When we’re hungry then we eat them

It’s appalling how we treat them — it’s insane

I do not understand the human race

That has so little love for creatures with a different face

We humiliate and murder and confine them

We create their wretched status

Then we use it to malign them

When you dress in suede or leather

Or some fancy fur or feather

Do you stop and wonder whether for a Fad

You have killed some beast or other

That you’re wearing someone’s Brother

Or perhaps it’s someone’s Mother in which you’re clad

We’ve made the whole world a zoo

For Man is an animal too