{"id":12067,"date":"2013-11-02T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12067"},"modified":"2013-11-02T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T12:16:16","slug":"pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/pigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instinctively the forest<br \/>\nis our true home<br \/>\nman un kind must have known this<br \/>\nbut to see<br \/>\nthe fresh designs created<br \/>\nin his CAFO&#8217;s<br \/>\ndemonstrates his blindness<br \/>\nactually<br \/>\nthe discord and the grossness<br \/>\nof his artlessness<br \/>\nits jarring to the spirit<br \/>\nand the mind<br \/>\nclumsy cramped unclassical conditions<br \/>\nrepellant, loathsome<br \/>\nall this underlined<br \/>\nthousands of them small cocoons<br \/>\nungainly<br \/>\nrows of them<br \/>\nto greet the troubled eye<br \/>\nunpicturesque I have to say forbidding<br \/>\na hideosity that does belie<\/p>\n<p>a hopelessness a comfortless creation<br \/>\na war of nerves played out<br \/>\nin cinemascope<br \/>\ngradually they are emptying<br \/>\neach vital row<br \/>\nand proving beyond doubt that they can cope<br \/>\nentering the factory the white tiles<br \/>\nstained with blood<br \/>\nexplosively we see the knives<br \/>\nor we hear that awful thud<br \/>\nof body from a height dropped<br \/>\nfast upon the slab<br \/>\nanother mechanical hand<br \/>\ncomes out and swiftly it does grab<\/p>\n<p>and off they go bits cut off of them<br \/>\nas they go along<br \/>\nthis automation<br \/>\nit isn&#8217;t seen as wrong<br \/>\nits effective its efficient<br \/>\nlife ends in this place<br \/>\nthe robots do their sculpting<br \/>\nand soon there is no trace<br \/>\nof all those lovely specimens<br \/>\nthat laid in that huge place<br \/>\nand listened to each other snort<br \/>\nand shared the shared disgrace<\/p>\n<p>man un kind designed it<br \/>\ncreated it the sheer<br \/>\ntorment it was evident<br \/>\nand the claustrophobic fear<br \/>\nit just gave me the willies<br \/>\nobserving it from high<br \/>\nupon  the crusted gantry<br \/>\nwhere so many pigs would die<\/p>\n<p>and through into the holding pens<br \/>\na jungle of tight wire<br \/>\nheld the waiting animals<br \/>\naware and some on fire<br \/>\nhearing no doubt feeling<br \/>\nthat death was pretty near<br \/>\nthe smells the yells<br \/>\nwhere in their dwells<br \/>\nenormous bouts of fear<\/p>\n<p>I doubt that hell is half as bad<br \/>\nfor this abhorrent place<br \/>\nan immediate aversion<br \/>\nthe look now on each face<br \/>\nnauseous and clearly<br \/>\nfinding it all too much<br \/>\nclearly now down trodden<br \/>\nand seriously out of touch<\/p>\n<p>reality this isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nthe forest back from where<br \/>\ntheir instinct might have guided them<br \/>\nto this current despair<br \/>\ncocooned in violent cages<br \/>\ntheir closeness did appear<br \/>\nto give each one more real concern<br \/>\nand a buildup of great fear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instinctively the forest is our true home man un kind must have known this but to see the fresh designs created in his CAFO&#8217;s demonstrates his blindness actually the discord and the grossness of his artlessness its jarring to the &hellip; 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