Amanda Gorman, activist and US poet laureate who recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, announced a new partnership with the milk industry Monday. The partnership is a part of Milk’s sponsorship of an upcoming women’s only marathon.
When asked how she felt being paid by an industry that forcibly impregnates female cows and then separates them from their babies in order to use their milk for human consumption, Gorman replied: “That’s not the hill I’m climbing.”
Our own in-house poet laureate at PBFN wrote a poem for Gorman’s support of the dairy industry:
When the day comes we ask ourselves
Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
How did it become so normal
For animals pain and suffering to be moral
By turning a blind eye again
Like all the injustice that have ever been
Environment and social justice warriors don’t care
For matters of animal welfare
With all their talk of finding the power
To be the author of a new chapter
Why are we so overwhelmingly unable
To recognize the devastation we put on our table
When will their eyes allow them to see
The cruelty that will be their legacy
They speak of the burdens we inherit
But give animal advocacy no merit
To give voice to the milk industry so callously
Is an egregious ignorance of the catastrophe
But it’s too inconvenient to discuss
What’s animal agriculture does to us
Instead they eat with closed eyes
To the inhumanity bringing our own demise
The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light
If only were brave enough to see it
If only were brave enough to see it
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