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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows: The parallel is obvious for those with eyes to seeFor all feel the same suffering, all the same miseryThe segregation of priviledged from those considered toolsThe state miseducation that makes all citizens foolsTaught that dogs and cats should be treated well as petsWhile in the cold laboratories same animals meet their deathsWith painful experimentation for more products to consumeA cheap way to make profits sends animals to their doom Consider factory farms with the animals crammed insideWith no access to daylight, from human eyes they hideNo real animal welfare, this would increase the costsThey’re treated as a commodity, as just profit or lossConsider circus animals or animals in the zooSlaves for your entertainment, suffer just to please youIn solitude they stay in their prison cage for monthsWith violence they are trained to perform unnatural stuntsConsider the tradition of killing just for funWhere birds are shot out of the sky for the pleasure of oneA dead corpse in a showcase for one to see and boastNo matter pointless killing is murder to the mostViolence to animals leads to violence to human beingsA culture of death does not have eyes for seeingAn all inclusive world makes it better for every beingAnimal liberation leads to human freeing1. What are the atrocities from which animals need to be liberated from2. Explain the plight of animals in the circus and the zoo.3. In what ways are animals are treated as commodities.4. What parallel is drawn by the poet between animal liberation and human liberation ?5. Explain the phrase – ‘send animals to their doom’.

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(1) Segregation / painful experiments / deaths in laboratories / entertainment slaves / killing

(2) Slaves for entertainment / suffer for man’s pleasure / isolated in crammed cages / suffer violence from trainers / forced to perform unnatural stunts

(3) Sold for profit or loss / no care for welfare / crammed in factory farms / no access to day light

(4) Suffer the same misery / world should be inclusive for both

(5) Force animals to reach death and destructions



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