Horsegate (what would Mr Ed say?)

                                                                                          

Where’s the Beef?

A horse is a horse of course of course

Unless it’s a Findus Lasagne of course

It’s not always a steady course

Talk to those misled.

‘Meat is murder’ sang the Smiths

Meat is 29% according to Aldi

So should you feel 71% less guilty

Like that smug vegetarian?

Who can look Dobbin in the eye?

Enjoying the view from the moral high ground

As lesser mortals they decry?

Will you remain a demi-vegetarian by proxy,

Or are you game for something foxy?

When price drives demand roadkill

To keep down that weekly food bill

And Heston’s produced a tasty badger roulade

As an alternative to the remains of a knacker’s yard

With prickly hedgehog fool for dessert

Or will the deceit of your receipt

 Incite you to put your money where your mouth is

In favour of farm-fresh, free-range, organic, well-bred breast-fed, university-educated rare-breed animals

You’ve known since they were hatched and on first name terms

Paying the price for food to be what it says on the can

Reading between the labels, we should delete this food spam

Let’s send the kebab van packing and the burger too

Say no to hors for our h'ouevre

Demand the truth about marscapone

Drink milk from the UK not the Ukraine

And support British farmers and fishermen again. 

 ©LS King 2013