As ce soir

turns to noir

in an abbatoir

near

the Loire

cows to life

say

au revoir

-saiom shriver-

Vincent Van Gogh, artist of the painting 'lying cow', wrote his brother Theodore that

after visiting the abbatoirs of southern France he had stopped eating meat.  Rodin was another French vegetarian artist while Leoanrdo was an Italian fruitarian.

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