Philip+Levine's+higher+purpose

Philip Levine is attempting to raise awareness that we humans are killing animals with little or no heed to the future. To take an example from real life one only needs to look at all the extinct species. A way to tell that this is his higher purpose could be with this line, "I'm to market. I can smell the sour, grooved block, I can smell the blade that opens the hole and the pudgy white fingers that shake out the intestines like a hankie." It shows that we are killing animals, without thinking that they are the same as us. Some of the animals we don't even mean to kill, we just are. The reasons why we are killing so many animals are, for example, food, money, clothes, and because we kill there prey. I feel that Philip Levine is, like I am, reflecting on the fact that our children shall not have the liberty of being able to see some of the wonderful animals in this world