{"id":11833,"date":"2013-10-17T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2013-10-17T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T12:23:09","slug":"grass-fed-calves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/grass-fed-calves\/","title":{"rendered":"Grass fed Calves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grass fed<br \/>\nwhat a swizzle<br \/>\nwhat a sick short sighted show<br \/>\nhumanely raised on verdant grass<br \/>\nthat so succulently does grow<br \/>\nthe poor calf locked into a cage<br \/>\nnot much bigger than he<br \/>\nand left to chew between his feet<br \/>\nfree supposedly<\/p>\n<p>out there in the sunshine<br \/>\nto ruminate a way<br \/>\nfree ranging like some dreamy state<br \/>\nof consciousness we pay<br \/>\nmore for such a picture<br \/>\nin our minds eye what we see<br \/>\nis utter freedom the green green grass<br \/>\nand joviality<\/p>\n<p>but really he is a prisoner<br \/>\nin a roving mobile cage<br \/>\nhe certainly cannot turn around<br \/>\nas we can turn a page<br \/>\nhe is trapped which is unnerving<br \/>\nfor he can see so much<br \/>\nthe green fields over yonder<br \/>\nbut of course he cannot touch<\/p>\n<p>his mothers milk is not for him<br \/>\nit was made for him but he<br \/>\nis not about to drink it<br \/>\nhumans get to see<br \/>\nmore of it than any calf<br \/>\nhe is mean&#8217;t for veal<br \/>\nthree months in this fucking cage<br \/>\nthats his life for real<\/p>\n<p>the farmer who employs this method<br \/>\nwhat I think of you<br \/>\nis you are pain in all our arses<br \/>\nto contemplate and do<br \/>\nthis to any baby calf<br \/>\nwho needs nutrition but<br \/>\nof course you have a better idea<br \/>\nkeep the wired cage shut <\/p>\n<p>when the grass is mowed down<br \/>\nmove the cage and calf<br \/>\na kind of open prison<br \/>\nin meaning a bout half<br \/>\ngrass fed my god farmers<br \/>\nyou play and others cry<br \/>\nprofit what a way to earn it<br \/>\nreally on a lie <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grass fed what a swizzle what a sick short sighted show humanely raised on verdant grass that so succulently does grow the poor calf locked into a cage not much bigger than he and left to chew between his feet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/grass-fed-calves\/\">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":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","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=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}