{"id":14049,"date":"2014-02-09T21:56:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=14049"},"modified":"2014-02-09T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T22:15:27","slug":"poor-little-marius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/poor-little-marius\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor little Marius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surplus Giraffe<\/p>\n<p>called Marius<\/p>\n<p>they gave the soul a name<\/p>\n<p>kept \u00a0him 2 years then decided<\/p>\n<p>his genes were shit<\/p>\n<p>the same<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ideas \u00a0zoo&#8217;s tend to<\/p>\n<p>have because<\/p>\n<p>let&#8217;s say it didn&#8217;t suit<\/p>\n<p>but taking on the thoughts of other zoo&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>seems not astute<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>for them the little soul<\/p>\n<p>might not have been the way to go<\/p>\n<p>its genes were shit we understand<\/p>\n<p>the principle<\/p>\n<p>the show<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>has to go on but \u00a0clearly<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;\">\u00a0if other zoo&#8217;s would be<\/span><\/p>\n<p>less discerning then I have to say<\/p>\n<p>it seems to me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>to see a young soul sold on<\/p>\n<p>rather than exclaim<\/p>\n<p>that you will use a captive bolt<\/p>\n<p>and kill it as fair game<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and then arrange a dissection<\/p>\n<p>inviting families to<\/p>\n<p>come and see the epectacle<\/p>\n<p>for me that can&#8217;t ring true<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marius was a little soul<\/p>\n<p>a giraffe an innocent who<\/p>\n<p>happened to \u00a0be \u00a0nnfortunately<\/p>\n<p>in the Danish Zoo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>who decided he would have to go<\/p>\n<p>the lions would benefit<\/p>\n<p>as would others so it seemed to be<\/p>\n<p>which to me seems utter shit<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the corpse laid out and cut up<\/p>\n<p>rapidly and fed onto the Lions<\/p>\n<p>who normally would eat horse meat<\/p>\n<p>not the best of signs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the \u00a0giraffe and \u00a0hope they appreciate<\/p>\n<p>the subtleties perhaps<\/p>\n<p>I believe it was \u00a0a corporate<\/p>\n<p>view<\/p>\n<p>thats wasn&#8217;t kept under wraps<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it was purely a decison<\/p>\n<p>based on profit which to me<\/p>\n<p>when dealing with a life<\/p>\n<p>a babies life<\/p>\n<p>lacked empathy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>creation is a lovely thing<\/p>\n<p>and death a final cut<\/p>\n<p>whatever they say about it all<\/p>\n<p>to me inside my gut<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>is a feeling of such sorrow<\/p>\n<p>for a little soul who tried<\/p>\n<p>to live its life \u00a0as normally<\/p>\n<p>but alas it was denied<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and so its dead and cut up<\/p>\n<p>and has been used to feed<\/p>\n<p>the Lions<\/p>\n<p>a life was simply wasted<\/p>\n<p>on a coin flip<\/p>\n<p>and those signs<\/p>\n<p>for me are clearly arrogant<\/p>\n<p>its life was worth much more<\/p>\n<p>than killing it so rapidly<\/p>\n<p>and my ask \u00a0is whatever for?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surplus Giraffe called Marius they gave the soul a name kept \u00a0him 2 years then decided his genes were shit the same &nbsp; ideas \u00a0zoo&#8217;s tend to have because let&#8217;s say it didn&#8217;t suit but taking on the thoughts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/poor-little-marius\/\">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":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049","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=14049"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14052,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14049\/revisions\/14052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}