{"id":1958,"date":"2012-06-05T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:55:06","slug":"the-rhino-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-rhino-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rhino Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its just seems unbelievable<br \/>\nthat in this day and age<br \/>\nPeople could be forced to pay<br \/>\nPrices off the page<br \/>\nTake Rhino Horn for instance<br \/>\nIts purely Keratin with a small amount<br \/>\nof calcium<br \/>\nand bad karma by the tin<br \/>\nBut still on the Black market<br \/>\nChinese merchants pay<br \/>\n60,000 $ per kilo that is way<br \/>\nMore than almost any other animal<br \/>\nproduct and<br \/>\nSupposedly makes men who can&#8217;t<br \/>\ninto men who can<br \/>\nBut to understand the logic<br \/>\nOnly the desperate try<br \/>\nto increase their libido<br \/>\nwith a price that&#8217;s way too high<\/p>\n<p>Which attracts the evil poacher<br \/>\nA desolated soul<br \/>\nWho armed with a tranquillizer gun<br \/>\nWill always have control<br \/>\nWhilst the Rhino, is sleeping<br \/>\nThese monstrosities for men<br \/>\nAre hacking with machete&#8217;s<br \/>\nor chain saws, what mayhem!<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re causing to the animal<br \/>\nwho wakes, only to find<br \/>\nThe nightmare she was having<br \/>\nWas of the real time kind<br \/>\nHer baby has been beaten up<br \/>\nand is lying on the ground<br \/>\nHer agony apparent<br \/>\nAware that she was found<br \/>\nAnd butchered by the people<br \/>\nWho work for the Chinese<br \/>\nAnd now she begins her walk<br \/>\nof death<br \/>\nwith no one to appease<br \/>\nHer, no one to help her<br \/>\nShe must surely die<br \/>\nAnd her pretty little baby<br \/>\ntoo,huge tears fill her eye<\/p>\n<p>China could now wake up<br \/>\nto this slaughter<br \/>\nTo the gangsters in the business really who<br \/>\nFool the sick with claims that this can heal them<br \/>\nWhen its a work of fiction<br \/>\nits not true<br \/>\nThe scarcity of Rhino Horn<br \/>\nis worrying<br \/>\nfor at least 1 Rhino is<br \/>\nkilled everyday<br \/>\nIts terribly unsavoury<br \/>\nand has really passed the point<br \/>\nOf no return and so to them I say<\/p>\n<p>Rhino&#8217;s all Rhino&#8217;s are under pressure<br \/>\nFor millions of years these creatures<br \/>\nhave evolved<br \/>\narmour clad,and almost prehistoric<br \/>\nThis puzzle as to why has to be solved<br \/>\nKeratin is in our nails so people<br \/>\nShould bite their nails and leave<br \/>\nRhino&#8217;s alone<br \/>\nThere is now no excuse<br \/>\nFor this summary abuse<br \/>\nAnd I think now that we have to raise our tone<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks Sophie Grizard for reminding me<br \/>\nof this)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The precious Rhino&#8217;s need our help they are being slaughtered daily for an alleged medicine made from their horn  <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-rhino-wars\/\">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":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}