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Who Pays the Real Cost?

Tesco Tesco

(audience) We say no!

Treating our land like

A big fat hoe

 

Tesco Tesco

(audience) We say go!

Destroying local businesses

Spreading GMO

 

We don’t need your no good

Cheap ‘goods’, low wages

2 quid battery chicken

Homeworkers of all ages

 

Working hard and gaining little

Being kept in poverty-

When you buy from Tescos,

You’re paying for food poverty

 

And animal cruelty,

Food miles

Massive stores with

Plastic aisles

Air conditioned food waste

All for profit not for taste

 

Misleading complex labelling

Food waste and excess packaging

Unfair bananas, sweatshop pyjamas,

They're killing off the local farmers

 

Salty processed junk food

Unethical sales of turtles and frogs

‘So what if it happens in China’?!

What if they did that here, to dogs?

 

Who pays the real cost of supermarket price wars?

Pop! Pop! Pop! They’re opening up more stores!

With 3.4 billion pounds of profit made in 2010:

They say ‘every little helps' because they’re talking about THEM

 

WE lose our suppliers,

Farmers lose their jobs

Workers worldwide earn next to nothing

While Tesco takes and Tesco ROBS

 

Am I being clear?

That not only local shops disappear?

But also the environment and community,

And all the things that we hold dear

 

So who pays the real cost of supermarket clone wars?

Who pays the price, as they open up their new stores?

On your street

And my street

And every 20 metres

Ignoring local voices

And chopping down trees and

 

You can form a barricade

And boycott their cheap shit,

But my question about all of this is

What MORE can we do about it??

 

Tesco Tesco

(audience) We say no!

STOP treating our land

Like a big fat hoe

 

Tesco Tesco

(audience) We say go!

We're going to put a stop to you-

You breeding corporate psycho.

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Jon

Wed 29th Sep 2010 15:50

Hi Zion,
Loved "Who pays the real cost?"! I wrote one on the same theme once,called "Every Little Helps",but it's gone missing.You've inspired me to give it another go!...and it's true...their shops do breed and pop up seemingly every few weeks!

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Tommy Carroll

Sun 5th Sep 2010 10:33

Zion my sentiments also. Nationalise them under workers control and management.

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