World - Is Meat Production Destroying The World? Poem by Paul Warren

Beef production continues across the world to grow
With 3 billion animals slaughtered for meat in this know
A cow is killed every 30 seconds in the beef producing nations
With the beef industry responsible for 2/3 rds of deforestation

In the west we eat 50 kilograms of beef every year
And animal faeces and urine destroying the land we hold dear
The water we have in aquifers and other storage is being used
Through over farming and global warming in this world we have abused

But we can change from these profiteering practices to save the world
In the Netherlands Scientists are growing synthetic meat from stem cells in their meld
And there are farmers Eco-farming without the need to grow corn to fatten livestock
But we still need to change our ways before we end in disaster in this worrying plot.

© Paul Warren Poetry