‘Dear Dairy’ By Lauren-Marie Kennedy
Dear Dairy,
no I do not miss you
because you are without a doubt
a feminist issue.
I called myself a feminist
but did not extend
the idea of equality
to the girls
on the other end
of the Species Spectrum
with devices they fit to their babies’ septum
designed to ‘wean’ them off their own mother’s milk.
“It’s natural,
it’s healthy,
it’ll give you strong bones.”
In fact,
it’s full of blood, puss, faeces, and hormones.
“But farmers love their animals”
I’m sure you’ve been told,
yet they tear children from their mothers
at just a day old!?
Not to mention the health problems
swimming round in your cereal bowl
heart disease, acne, diabetes,
cancers, and high cholesterol.
I can’t help but wonder
why we make excuses for this violation
call the brutal sexual assault
‘Artificial Insemination’
and the Laughing Cow does not laugh anymore
when she’s considered ‘spent’
when her teats are red, raw, and sore.
This abuse only continues
because people pay for it to happen
but there is an alternative world,
Just Imagine
I’ve been there, I’ve seen it,
I live there now
where milk comes from plants
and not the tits of a cow
it’s called being Vegan
and it’s so easy to do.
Dear Dairy,
you are fucking scary
and I refuse to fund you!!