Beef Lyrics - Singles - Boogie Down Productions

Beef, what a relief 

When will this poisonous product cease? 

This is another public service announcement 

You can believe it, or you can doubt it 

Let us begin now with the cow 

The way it gets to your plate and how 

The cow doesn't grow fast enough for man 

So through his greed he makes a faster plan 

He has drugs to make the cow grow quicker 

Through the stress the cow gets sicker 

Twenty-one different drugs are pumped 

Into the cow in one big lump 

So just before it dies, it cries 

In the slaughterhouse full of germs and flies 

Off with the head, they pack it, drain it, and cart it 

And there it is, in your local supermarket 

Red and bloody, a corpse, neatly packed 

And you wonder about heart attacks? 

Come on now man let's be for real 

You are what you eat is the way I feel 

But, the Food and Drug Administration 

Will tell you meat is the perfect combination 

See cows live under fear and stress 

Trying to think what's gonna happen next 

Fear and stress can become a part of you 

In your cells and blood, this is true 

So when the cow is killed, believe it 

You preserve those cells, you freeze it 

Thaw it out with the blood and season it 

Then you sit down and begin eatin it 

In your body, it's structure becomes your structure 

All the fear and stress of another 

Any drug is addictive by any name 

Even drugs in meat, they are the same 

The FDA has America strung out 

On drugs in beef no doubt 

So if you think that what I say is a bunch of crock 

Tell yourself you're gonna try and stop 

Eatin meat and you'll see you can't compete 

It's the number one drug on the street 

Not crack, cause that was made for just black 

But brown beef, for all American teeth 

Life brings life and death brings death 

Keep on eatin the dead and what's left 

Absolute disease and negative 

Read the book 'How to Eat to Live' 

By Elijah Muhammad, it's a brown paperback 

For anybody, either white or black 

See how many cows must be pumped up fatter 

How many rats gotta fall in the batter 

How many chickens that eat shit you eat 

How much high blood pressure you get from pig feet 

See you'll consume, the FDA could care less 

They'll sell you donkey meat and say it's 

FRESH! For nineteen-ninety, you SUCKERS 

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