{"id":1970,"date":"2012-06-05T18:49:30","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T18:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:54:18","slug":"canberra-its-up-to-you-to-stop-the-killing-of-the-iconic-kangaroo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/canberra-its-up-to-you-to-stop-the-killing-of-the-iconic-kangaroo\/","title":{"rendered":"Canberra its up to you to stop the killing of the iconic Kangaroo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So your exporting your precious<br \/>\nKangaroo&#8217;s to South Korea<br \/>\nSouthern Game Meats are exporting<br \/>\n100 tonnes and its clear<br \/>\nThe Gov&#8217;t should step in<br \/>\nAnd stop the killing now<br \/>\nWild steak sold in your hotels<br \/>\nDoes not give out a wow!<br \/>\nfeeling, I can tell you<br \/>\nin fact what it does do<br \/>\nIs make us want to boycott<br \/>\nThose Hotels who tell you<br \/>\nThe steaks are from WILD kangaroos<br \/>\nLike the hotel, where I stayed<br \/>\nIn a place I &#8216;d never go back to<br \/>\nSouth Terrace in Adelaide<\/p>\n<p>Sausages, rissoles Smoked meats<br \/>\nopening markets where<br \/>\nYour corporates are mindless<br \/>\nThe Kangaroo&#8217;s despair<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re the face now of Australia<br \/>\nUn yet they&#8217;re treated bad<br \/>\nclubbing a million joey&#8217;s<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry its so sad<br \/>\nYour image outside in the world<br \/>\nIs falling by the day<br \/>\nA valuable Tourist Industry<br \/>\nCan be frittered away<\/p>\n<p>Bar Code killings<br \/>\nOut in Queensland<br \/>\nYea it makes the news<br \/>\nAnd pisses off, people like me<br \/>\nWith clearly different views<br \/>\nHunters have no foresight<br \/>\nThey completely miss the point<br \/>\nYour killing off your heritage<br \/>\nFor some prime bloody joint<br \/>\nYou cannot see a Kangaroo<br \/>\nfrom the  Ghan<br \/>\nnot one, I saw<br \/>\nNor the India Pacific<br \/>\nnot one, not one, no more<\/p>\n<p>Kill the bloody lot of them<br \/>\nand ship them to Korea<br \/>\nAnd earn your bloodied dollars<br \/>\nNo doubt it brings you cheer<br \/>\nIts on your National Airline&#8217;s wings<br \/>\nBut maybe what you do<br \/>\nIs erase it with a message<br \/>\nand replace it with a view<br \/>\nOf South Koreans<br \/>\neating the poor old Kangaroo<br \/>\nWho was living in the outback<br \/>\nBefore the lot of you<\/p>\n<p>You people now in Canberra<br \/>\nWho make these rules, you must<br \/>\nGo out, into the outback<br \/>\nAnd feel that rich red dust<br \/>\nSee how many Kangaroo&#8217;s<br \/>\nyou can find out there<br \/>\nTake your high powered rifle<br \/>\nAnd what is complete despair<br \/>\nKill 2000 more of them<br \/>\nslaughter them at will<br \/>\nThen fill in those bar codes<br \/>\nJust writing  it I feel a chill<\/p>\n<p>Run down my spine<br \/>\nFor I wonder what&#8217;s wrong<br \/>\nwith all of you<br \/>\nHonestly I shiver<br \/>\nat the thought<br \/>\nof what you do<br \/>\nJust kill for the sake of killing<br \/>\nUsing heartless souls who will<br \/>\npick up the tab<br \/>\nAnd their karma<br \/>\nwill  also spill on you <\/p>\n<p>Tried to send it to the first Minister in Canberra blocked!<br \/>\nTried to send it to the Chronicle Newspaper Editor Blocked!<br \/>\nAustralia seems to be copying the old ostrich policy head in the sand<br \/>\nits not really happening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iconic Kangaroo being slaughtered out of hand. The Canberra Gov&#8217;t must begin to see sense before the Tourist Industry grinds to a sudden stop. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/canberra-its-up-to-you-to-stop-the-killing-of-the-iconic-kangaroo\/\">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":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kangaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}