{"id":20291,"date":"2015-03-11T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=20291"},"modified":"2015-03-11T13:13:02","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T13:13:02","slug":"dog-meat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/03\/dog-meat-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog meat festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activism on line<br \/>\nis pulling in the votes<br \/>\nA 600 year history<br \/>\nhas some worthy notes<br \/>\nBut slaughtering dogs to fulfil this wish<br \/>\nClearly is causing pain<br \/>\nEven in China the people<br \/>\nPurposely refrain<\/p>\n<p>From creating so much carnage<br \/>\nDespite the cultural past<br \/>\nDespite the medical benefits<br \/>\nIt seems their die is cast<br \/>\nChanges are now coming<br \/>\nThe realisation seems<br \/>\nTo occupy the minds of many<br \/>\nClearly there are teams<\/p>\n<p>Of people into Animal Rights<br \/>\nAnd feel it&#8217;s just not right<br \/>\nTo clear the streets of strays and feral&#8217;s<br \/>\nAnd pet dogs too<br \/>\nThe might<br \/>\nOf emotion sweeps across them<br \/>\nThe middle classes do<br \/>\nWant pet dogs and others<br \/>\nThat appears the view<\/p>\n<p>They expect to see this torture<br \/>\nThis evil and despair<br \/>\nThe destruction of a species<br \/>\nIn a festival of death<br \/>\nDenying them a future<br \/>\nDenying them shared breath<\/p>\n<p>Their thrustful canine ebullience<br \/>\nThe violence of it all<br \/>\nThe turmoil and the ferment<br \/>\nChained up against the wall<br \/>\nOverwhelmed with beatings<br \/>\nEnraged and maddened they<br \/>\nAre plunged into the boiling tanks<br \/>\nAnd become soup right away<br \/>\nThen Liquidated earnestly<br \/>\nAnd Really made to pay<\/p>\n<p>Some are kept in cages<br \/>\nThrust in tightly,they<br \/>\nAre being squashed and also coshed<br \/>\nAbout the head each day<br \/>\nIt was sombre it was ugly<br \/>\nPole axed dramatically<br \/>\nScreams and whelps and terror<br \/>\nThat Everyone could see<br \/>\nThe evidence was everywhere<br \/>\nA blood bath now there be<\/p>\n<p>And this they called a festival<br \/>\nTheir judgement shot away<br \/>\nA mis reckoning such fanaticism<br \/>\nHow an animal race can pay<br \/>\nHow parochial and jaundiced<br \/>\nA massive blind spot they<br \/>\nCarried on the murdering<br \/>\nWith few around to say<br \/>\nThey shouldn&#8217;t, they went on with it<br \/>\nTraditional but wrong<br \/>\nWhole families were included<br \/>\nIt just did not belong<\/p>\n<p>How could this be regarded<br \/>\nAs a festival where joy<br \/>\nWas shared amongst the people<br \/>\nReally they did employ<br \/>\nNo attention to the wonderment<br \/>\nAnd default on the way<br \/>\nThey carried on the evil<br \/>\nAlmost to this day<\/p>\n<p>The scholarly the ignorant<br \/>\nSupposedly the wise<br \/>\nCouldn&#8217;t see the absurdity<br \/>\nAnd adding to their demise<br \/>\nCreating this mis guidance<br \/>\nThis infuriated state<br \/>\nA great abyss of canine blood<br \/>\nBeing added to of late<\/p>\n<p>Onto social media<br \/>\nAnd the animal right teams who<br \/>\nUsed their warrior tactics<br \/>\nTheir words and slogans too<br \/>\nThe psychotic madcap loonies<br \/>\nWho for some 600 years<br \/>\nHad been slaughtering the innocent<br \/>\nThe buckets of blood and tears<br \/>\nThe many who just turned away<br \/>\nNot prepared to fight<br \/>\nAll of them were overcome<br \/>\nBy the courage and the might<br \/>\nBoys and girls all warriors<br \/>\nWith bright eyes they could see<br \/>\nAn army of social media<br \/>\nClearly they were free<\/p>\n<p>The Jin hua cultural dog kill<br \/>\nWas cancelled overnight<br \/>\nClearly all the powers to be<br \/>\nOf course they saw the light<br \/>\nBearing down on each of them<br \/>\nThis squalor and this pain<br \/>\nWhat had gone on for 600 years<br \/>\nWould not happen again<\/p>\n<p>China is beginning to<br \/>\nSee the age old sin<br \/>\nOf Prehistoric carnage<br \/>\nAs their means to underpin<br \/>\nCulture and tradition<br \/>\nIt really has to go<br \/>\nIt came from the dark ages<br \/>\nWhich is positive as now they know<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activism on line is pulling in the votes A 600 year history has some worthy notes But slaughtering dogs to fulfil this wish Clearly is causing pain Even in China the people Purposely refrain From creating so much carnage Despite &hellip; 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