Springbok

Antelope. A springbok runs fast on the savanna avoiding lions and other predators, but ultimately it is destined to become food for slayers and thus useful. Going back two and a half million years, my African ancestors too hunted them. In Portugal the African heritage is quite strong, their Fado tells us of a past forever lost. Our life span is short, mere dust in the eye of eternity, and people have bought bicycles in the hope of living longer, we all hope to live to be hundred years old even if we are overcome by senility and lose track of time. On a dairy farm, you will see a pastoral scene brown& white cows, with full udders, eating juicy grass, but they do give birth and if it is a male calf it get killed after two weeks, cause It is not useful, and destroyed. There is no money to be made of milk-calves few eat them and it cost more money sending them to an abattoir, they are not even worthy to end up as hamburger meat; and I find this waste a colossal disgrace a sin against nature. Lucky is the springbok