{"id":2067,"date":"2012-06-17T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2013-03-23T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:49:12","slug":"the-kangaroo-what-can-we-do-to-save-them-from-the-meat-and-leather-trades-and-the-apathy-of-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-kangaroo-what-can-we-do-to-save-them-from-the-meat-and-leather-trades-and-the-apathy-of-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat, Leather and Apathy the death knell for the iconic Kangaroo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crippling droughts<br \/>\nthe natural enemy of the wild souls<br \/>\nbut man alone<br \/>\nstands masterfully<br \/>\nand the wind and wild<br \/>\none&#8217;s groan<br \/>\nat his vile<br \/>\nand nasty nature<br \/>\nthe commercial trade<br \/>\nin MEAT<br \/>\nin LEATHER<br \/>\nand the Government<br \/>\nwhose powers<br \/>\nare too effete<br \/>\nits a cruel and nasty<br \/>\nindustry<br \/>\nand meaningful towards<br \/>\nthe wild one&#8217;s and the<br \/>\ncountryside<br \/>\na great crossing of<br \/>\nswords<br \/>\nSouth Australia seemingly<br \/>\nare not prepared to stand<br \/>\nup against the<br \/>\ncorporates who now<br \/>\ncontrol the land<br \/>\nthe kangaroo gets short shrift<br \/>\nfrom the hunters<br \/>\nsold as pet food<br \/>\nand leather, then there&#8217;s shoes<br \/>\nall the big names<br \/>\nbuy into this massacre<br \/>\nnative species<br \/>\nlooking now for clues<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t get too much<br \/>\nhelp it seems from<br \/>\nGovernment<br \/>\nthey are a bunch of softies<br \/>\nany way<br \/>\nup against the meat trade<br \/>\nand the corporates<br \/>\nthe real power<br \/>\nits has upped<br \/>\nand gone okay!<br \/>\nI travelled just the other<br \/>\nweek from Perth<br \/>\nto Adelaide<br \/>\nand then went up to Darwin<br \/>\nall by train<br \/>\nI never saw one Kangaroo<br \/>\nnot one<br \/>\nnow what does that tell you<br \/>\nthe commercial world<br \/>\nhas won the day again<br \/>\ncritical minimum densities<br \/>\nits hard to say<br \/>\na land where<br \/>\nKangaroo&#8217;s have always been<br \/>\nbut now the greedy brain dead<br \/>\nmob<br \/>\ntheir rifles cocked<br \/>\nclearly they rob<br \/>\nAustralia of its icon<br \/>\nits obscene.<\/p>\n<p>I lie, I saw a Kangaroo, dead<br \/>\nbeside the road<br \/>\nout of Perth near<br \/>\nSerpentine<br \/>\nand I tell you that it<br \/>\nshowed<br \/>\nme that city dwellers have let<br \/>\ntheir voices die<br \/>\nthey&#8217;ve let the corporations<br \/>\ncome and murder and defy<br \/>\nA sense of what was right<br \/>\nabout the outback<br \/>\nwhich was where<br \/>\nthe Kangaroo displayed their right<br \/>\ndoes anybody care?<br \/>\nfor now the MEAT and<br \/>\nLEATHER trade, have the upper hand<br \/>\neverything that moves is shot<br \/>\non this blood red Aussie land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kangaroo&#8217;s are being killed all over for MEAT and FOR LEATHER hotels are offering it on their menu&#8217;s and stipulating that it is wild kangaroo, don&#8217;t stay in these places tell them stick their beds <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-kangaroo-what-can-we-do-to-save-them-from-the-meat-and-leather-trades-and-the-apathy-of-the-people\/\">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":[4,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-kangaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7012,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}