{"id":19555,"date":"2015-01-05T21:46:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T21:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=19555"},"modified":"2015-01-06T08:47:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T08:47:32","slug":"arsenic-and-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/arsenic-and-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenic and chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>how many real people<br \/>\nNow Have to be<br \/>\nThreatened with  what is adversity<br \/>\nWith toxins,and  poisons<br \/>\nYes Maybe  you<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t know them<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t see them<br \/>\nWhatever they do<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t know their names<br \/>\nOr, how they tick<br \/>\nSo what does it matter<br \/>\nIf somebody&#8217;s sick<\/p>\n<p>Has a metallic taste<br \/>\nOr cramp that is salt<br \/>\nLosing their hair<br \/>\nIt must be their fault<br \/>\nIs it imagine<br \/>\nArsenic no smell<br \/>\nNo flavour to speak of<br \/>\nThe toxin from Hell.<\/p>\n<p>And how come it&#8217;s out there<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the groundwater<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s in the soil<br \/>\nYour son and your daughter<br \/>\nIt just makes my blood boil<br \/>\nAnd all the time they were<br \/>\nAdding the stuff<br \/>\nTo increase the weight<br \/>\nHave you heard enough?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s banned here I hear<br \/>\nBut in the U S<br \/>\nThey are still adding it<br \/>\nDespite,  the stress<br \/>\nPut in the chicken feed<br \/>\nWhat can we say<br \/>\nA CAFO holds 20 to 30 thousand<br \/>\nAnd they pay<br \/>\nA lot for the privilege<br \/>\nOf being alive<br \/>\nForced into their ocean of feathers<br \/>\nThey thrive<br \/>\nJust about lost in the hell house<br \/>\nWhere they<br \/>\nAre neglected and tortured<br \/>\nIn every way<\/p>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s an order<br \/>\nWhen pecking begins<br \/>\nThey truly suffer<br \/>\nFor all of our sins<br \/>\nPecked till they bleed<br \/>\nSo many die<br \/>\nPutting on weight<br \/>\nIn the wink of an eye<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not what the chicken wants<br \/>\nThey want to be<br \/>\nAlive for as long as they can<br \/>\nBut then we<br \/>\nWant to make money<br \/>\nWhich everyone does<br \/>\nSo its add the food additive<br \/>\nAnd feel the buzz<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy is there is arsenic around<br \/>\nThey say it&#8217;s organic<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s not<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;ve found<br \/>\nHow it goes inorganic<br \/>\nIn manure, oh dear<br \/>\nThe stuff spread as waste on the soil<br \/>\nYet more fear<br \/>\nThe water table the toxins they spread<br \/>\nArsenic gets everywhere<br \/>\nPut that to bed!<br \/>\nWhen it&#8217;s inorganic<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s terribly vile<br \/>\nAnd Tyson&#8217;s stopped using it<br \/>\nNow for some while<br \/>\nBut others they carried on<br \/>\nNobody cared<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s arsenic in chicken<br \/>\nFrom CAFO&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>Whose scared?<\/p>\n<p>I am for one<br \/>\nWhy suffer this shit<br \/>\nAnd the fact that in essence<br \/>\nMost don&#8217;t care one bit<br \/>\nNon organic chickens from CAFO&#8217;s beware<br \/>\nIn the US it can be  just anywhere<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a indictment on humanity<br \/>\nAnd the faceless and nameless<br \/>\nYes yes you and me<\/p>\n<p>and I am a vegan<br \/>\nBut spreading the shit<br \/>\nOn land growing vegetables<br \/>\nHow does that sit<br \/>\nIn our psyche. I wonder<br \/>\nNo ones exempt<br \/>\nMy plea really you have to make the attempt<br \/>\nAt going organic<br \/>\nTrying it out<br \/>\nYes it is ominous<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s little doubt<br \/>\nPeople cut corners<br \/>\nThe corporates they<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t care a monkeys about us<br \/>\nOkay<br \/>\nSo we have to think more<br \/>\nSelect what we buy<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t trust the farmers<br \/>\nAnd now you know why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>how many real people Now Have to be Threatened with what is adversity With toxins,and poisons Yes Maybe you Don&#8217;t know them Can&#8217;t see them Whatever they do You don&#8217;t know their names Or, how they tick So what does &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/01\/arsenic-and-chicken\/\">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":[120,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-food","category-food-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555","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=19555"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19560,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19555\/revisions\/19560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}