{"id":15755,"date":"2014-04-18T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15755"},"modified":"2014-04-18T15:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T15:23:32","slug":"even-at-easter-we-cannot-escape-your-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/even-at-easter-we-cannot-escape-your-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Even at Easter we cannot escape your cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am one of those little chicks<\/p>\n<p>all fluffy and yellow that&#8217;s me<\/p>\n<p>I kind of chirp a bit its true<\/p>\n<p>for just born I&#8217;m so \u00a0happy<\/p>\n<p>the problem is a that I&#8217;m a boy<\/p>\n<p>and boys do not lay eggs<\/p>\n<p>I have pretty feathers<\/p>\n<p>and I have 2 legs<\/p>\n<p>a heart some lungs<\/p>\n<p>a stomach<\/p>\n<p>yes a bit like you<\/p>\n<p>but when you are a chicken<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s nothing you can do<\/p>\n<p>with a boy<\/p>\n<p>he&#8217;s got to enter the conveyor<\/p>\n<p>of the damned<\/p>\n<p>and end up in meat derivatives<\/p>\n<p>the big can where I&#8217;m found<\/p>\n<p>consigned, to the pet food trade<\/p>\n<p>yea feathers and all<\/p>\n<p>ground up in a slurry<\/p>\n<p>into which I fall<\/p>\n<p>they need me for an advert<\/p>\n<p>for Easter<\/p>\n<p>yea tweet tweet<\/p>\n<p>Cadbury&#8217;s selling Easter Eggs<\/p>\n<p>I sit here on a seat<\/p>\n<p>with chocolate eggs all around me<\/p>\n<p>with blossoms it is Spring<\/p>\n<p>but sooner rather than late<\/p>\n<p>to the slurry they will bring<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>billions of us little souls<\/p>\n<p>we just have to die<\/p>\n<p>Easter will not save us<\/p>\n<p>no one hears us cry<\/p>\n<p>noone cares a jolt for chicks<\/p>\n<p>nobody at all<\/p>\n<p>not even children worry<\/p>\n<p>when we make the fall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>then there&#8217;s bunny rabbits<\/p>\n<p>fluffy with big ears<\/p>\n<p>if only within our \u00a0great big eyes<\/p>\n<p>we could make real tears<\/p>\n<p>we haven&#8217;t got the tear ducts<\/p>\n<p>but when we feel the pain<\/p>\n<p>we cannot cry our hearts out<\/p>\n<p>and tears don&#8217;t fall like rain<\/p>\n<p>so often we are featured on Easter<\/p>\n<p>cards for you<\/p>\n<p>but most sit in laboratories<\/p>\n<p>the draize tests very few<\/p>\n<p>ever get to see the end of any day<\/p>\n<p>for we<\/p>\n<p>are blinded by the substances<\/p>\n<p>that they squirt on us<\/p>\n<p>see<\/p>\n<p>not us of course they blind us<\/p>\n<p>with their chemicals each day<\/p>\n<p>if we could cry an ocean<\/p>\n<p>then it would wash away<\/p>\n<p>but we can never cry alas<\/p>\n<p>how ever sore our eyes<\/p>\n<p>and so we suffer terribly<\/p>\n<p>from the vivisection guys<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Easter means that supermarkets<\/p>\n<p>get a chance to sell<\/p>\n<p>Turkeys, Capons Guinea Fowl<\/p>\n<p>they do experience Hell<\/p>\n<p>killed before their time is up<\/p>\n<p>slaughtered tragically<\/p>\n<p>so human beings can fill their guts<\/p>\n<p>with the spoils including me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a happy Easter<\/p>\n<p>remember the calves who die<\/p>\n<p>remember the rabbits \u00a0their experience<\/p>\n<p>and ask your parents why<\/p>\n<p>remember the chicks the little chicks<\/p>\n<p>ground up for the cat<\/p>\n<p>remember its Easter<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter<\/p>\n<p>and you now know where we&#8217;re at<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am one of those little chicks all fluffy and yellow that&#8217;s me I kind of chirp a bit its true for just born I&#8217;m so \u00a0happy the problem is a that I&#8217;m a boy and boys do not lay &hellip; 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