{"id":12081,"date":"2013-11-03T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2013-11-03T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T09:52:48","slug":"namibian-seal-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/namibian-seal-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Seal Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can feel the present frustration<br \/>\nyear after year we all see<br \/>\nnursing pups slaughtered<br \/>\nout on the sands<br \/>\nNamibia&#8217;s at it and we<br \/>\nrealise it is a sanctuary too<br \/>\nwith tourists who pay<br \/>\nto see Seals<br \/>\nbut they do not know<br \/>\nthat earlier that day<br \/>\nthey slaughter them there<br \/>\nit reveals<\/p>\n<p>a sickness a terrible problem<br \/>\nNambibia want to be seen<br \/>\nas a place where the seals<br \/>\ncan all flourish<br \/>\nbut also to kill them<br \/>\nso mean<br \/>\nthey are having their cake<br \/>\nand their eating it<br \/>\nand the world looks upon them as good<br \/>\nknowing their killing and selling the pelts<br \/>\nand we feel we&#8217;re misunderstood<\/p>\n<p>the gangs go in early and slaughter<br \/>\nthe jcb&#8217;s follow and hide<br \/>\nall of the evidence all of the blood<br \/>\nyes they take us for a ride<br \/>\nthe tourists then pay them to see<br \/>\nlittle seals with their mothers<br \/>\nenjoying the day<br \/>\nand as soon as they&#8217;ve gone<br \/>\nthey start up the con<br \/>\nand blow these sweet babies away<\/p>\n<p>Namibia has to be seen as a crook<br \/>\ncruel they are cruel I can say<br \/>\nselling these pelts to the Egyptian man<br \/>\nwho lives in Sydney so they say<br \/>\nits nowt about fish its just money<br \/>\na lucrative market thats all<br \/>\nit pays to bash some of them over the head<br \/>\nand drive people like us up the wall<\/p>\n<p>Namibia she gets the okay<br \/>\nand tourists flood in every year<br \/>\nif they got a black mark for what they are doing<br \/>\nthen they would change that is clear<br \/>\nand thats where we ought to be aiming our vote<br \/>\nthat is the way we can sink their boat<br \/>\nsigning petitions and answering posts<br \/>\nis causing frustration and too many ghosts<\/p>\n<p>The EEC has banned the seal products so<br \/>\nget Oz and New Zealand and others to show<br \/>\ntheir strength by so doing ban seal skins worldwide<br \/>\nslaughter their market banish the pride<br \/>\nof working with seal skin prohibit its use<br \/>\nthen we can curtail all this vile abuse<br \/>\nI feel the frustration I hate it  too<br \/>\nbut really dear friends this is what we must do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can feel the present frustration year after year we all see nursing pups slaughtered out on the sands Namibia&#8217;s at it and we realise it is a sanctuary too with tourists who pay to see Seals but they do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/namibian-seal-slaughter\/\">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":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","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=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12085,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions\/12085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}