{"id":11049,"date":"2013-09-14T11:50:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11049"},"modified":"2013-09-14T11:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T11:50:57","slug":"indian-circus-cruelty-with-the-price-of-a-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/indian-circus-cruelty-with-the-price-of-a-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Circus   (cruelty with the price of a ticket)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Circus<br \/>\nappears to be big business<br \/>\nits been around a few years too<br \/>\nand draws<br \/>\nquite a crowd apparently<br \/>\nmostly  to see the Elephants<br \/>\nperform some meaningless tricks<br \/>\nbut there are flaws<\/p>\n<p>in all of this and what we see<br \/>\nis cruelty<br \/>\nits blatant its not hidden<br \/>\nit appears<br \/>\nto be what trainers do to their wild<br \/>\ncharges<br \/>\nbash them with a spike<br \/>\nbehind their ears<\/p>\n<p>now elephants are big and strong<br \/>\nand heavy<br \/>\nbut a spike behind your ears<br \/>\nit really hurts<br \/>\nthe pain is clearly evident<br \/>\nthe way the elephant jumps<br \/>\nand from its eyes the tears<br \/>\noh yes it squirts<\/p>\n<p>its agonising watching grown men<br \/>\ndo this<br \/>\nto animals that could crush them<br \/>\nwith one sweep<br \/>\ncrush them into powder<br \/>\nbut all resist temptation<br \/>\nreally its enough to make you weep<\/p>\n<p>they get a constant battering<br \/>\nupon their legs and thighs<br \/>\nunder the curtain on their private parts too,<br \/>\nrealise<br \/>\nthey suffer how they suffer<br \/>\nfor the right to entertain<br \/>\nIndian&#8217;s who clearly don&#8217;t realise that pain<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s inflicted time and time again<br \/>\nthere are lesions everywhere<br \/>\ncuts and whips and lacerations<br \/>\njust complete despair<br \/>\nand really what&#8217;s it all about<br \/>\nso an elephant can perform<br \/>\nclimb on some rickety table<br \/>\nand let the big crowd warm<\/p>\n<p>to what this soul is doing<br \/>\ntesting its weight to try<br \/>\nand get the crowd to gasp a bit<br \/>\nbut no one asks now why?<br \/>\nthey go out in their hundreds<br \/>\npart with their rupees<br \/>\nand watch an animals getting beaten<br \/>\nits all a bloody wheeze<\/p>\n<p>it gives the trainers space to really<br \/>\nbrutalize and cause<br \/>\nfear within those animals<br \/>\nand in fact they seldom pause<br \/>\nthe Peta film from India<br \/>\nis explicit for we see<br \/>\ntorture during a live show<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t care obviously<\/p>\n<p>Circus is such terror for the animals<br \/>\nthey use<br \/>\nreally it is pure and simple<br \/>\nthe trainers do abuse<br \/>\ntheir station circus should be banned<br \/>\nclosed down right away<br \/>\nand leave the elephants where they were born<br \/>\nfrom the circus, far away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Circus appears to be big business its been around a few years too and draws quite a crowd apparently mostly to see the Elephants perform some meaningless tricks but there are flaws in all of this and what we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/09\/indian-circus-cruelty-with-the-price-of-a-ticket\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11050,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11049\/revisions\/11050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}