About the Poem

I describe this as a poem for vegetarian kids, since there's no escaping from the fact that however well beef cattle are cared for, the intention is to kill and eat them.

Style

Short rhyming poem

Length

5 lines

Key Stage

KS1, KS2

Author

Patrick Winstanley

Kobe Or Not Kobe

If I were a Kobe cow
Fed on litres of lager
And given daily massages
I think I'd still rather
Not end up as sausages.