I dag firas Djurens dag. Djuren som vi mördar och utnyttjar för vår aptit, nöje och profit.

Delar av Ella Wheeler Wilcox underbara poem tillägnad alla djuren som utnyttjas och mördas helt i onödan.

The Voice of the Voiceless

"I am the voice of the voiceless;
    Through me the dumb shall speak;
Till the deaf world's ear be made to hear
    The cry of the wordless weak.
From street, from cage, and from kennel,
    From jungle and stall, the wail
Of my tortured kin proclaims the sin
    Of the mighty against the frail.

And I am my brother's keeper,
    And I will fight his fight,
And speak the word for beast and bird,
    Till the world shall set things right."

Poems by experience av Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1910