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The Slaughtermen of Bassatin by Jenny Moxham
The slaughtermen of Bassatin
Were brandishing their knives.
Were bent on taking lives.
They cut the cattle's tendons
And ignored their anguished cries,
The torturemen of Bassatin
Then stabbed them in the eyes.
In the Bassatin slaughterhouse in Egypt, slaughtermen disable cattle by cutting the tendons of their legs then plunging a long knife through the eye which then serves as a handle to jerk the animals head around for ritual slaughter
