{"id":21862,"date":"2015-06-29T07:38:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=21862"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T08:48:19","slug":"chicken-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/chicken-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken shed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It makes no difference what you are<br \/>\nA chicken or a cow<br \/>\nIf you are being eaten<br \/>\nThe humans show you how<br \/>\nHeaven can be so transformed<br \/>\nTo hell in the wink of an eye<br \/>\nCome with me to chicken land<br \/>\nAnd watch the many die<\/p>\n<p>We all are born as equals<br \/>\nFeathered and alive<br \/>\nBig bright eyes to see the light<br \/>\nTo help us all survive<br \/>\nThen we meet the human<br \/>\nWho prepares our destiny<br \/>\nSuch an expectation<br \/>\nProfitability<br \/>\nPacked in sheds so many of us<br \/>\nThrown in crates we are<br \/>\nStomped on by the idiots<br \/>\nWho brazenly do scar<br \/>\nWe know that we are hated<br \/>\nSurplus to their case<br \/>\nTortured we are thrown about<br \/>\nBy the human race<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not potluck it&#8217;s always<br \/>\nWe really have no power<br \/>\nOur vigour and our dynamism<br \/>\nStolen by the hour<br \/>\nOf course we are defenceless<br \/>\nEmasculated, we<br \/>\nAre in the concentration camp<br \/>\nWhere nobody can see<br \/>\nWeaponless and feeble<br \/>\nUndermined are we<br \/>\nThe farmers have their way with us<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s how it has to be<\/p>\n<p>Crated up for slaughter<br \/>\nTossed in rotten trays<br \/>\nManhandled we are bits of shit<br \/>\nTortured all our days<br \/>\nOur feathers torn a sunder<br \/>\nOur wings crushed by the way<br \/>\nWe are thrown about the place<br \/>\nEvery fucking day<\/p>\n<p>Some are badly injured<br \/>\nHearts pumping still but they<br \/>\nWill die soon and be eaten<br \/>\nBy the others, you can say<br \/>\nWe chickens will eat each other<br \/>\nThe sight of blood and gore<br \/>\nGets us really going<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a sort of civil war<\/p>\n<p>Many become lifeless torpid yes and numb<br \/>\nBeaten by the system<br \/>\nMany more will come<br \/>\nAnd just be thrust upon us<br \/>\nThe turmoil is each day<br \/>\nGoaded into pecking<br \/>\nBut if we peck we pay<\/p>\n<p>We have no space to sit down<br \/>\nTo rest our tired old feet<br \/>\nWe are on them morning noon and night<br \/>\nAnd we do get beat<br \/>\nDisplaced from life and the reality<br \/>\nOf these confounded crates<br \/>\nIs you make us all your victims<br \/>\nThen we feel like reprobates<\/p>\n<p>Displaced and being loaded<br \/>\nOff to slaughter that&#8217;s our meet<br \/>\nAn interval of evil<br \/>\nThe slaughter man will greet<br \/>\nUs with regressive rancour<br \/>\nWill torture us and we<br \/>\nMust expect decapitation<br \/>\nOr not unfortunately<br \/>\nsome of us<br \/>\nGo forward completely conscious,  we<br \/>\nAre then plunged into the boiling water<br \/>\nTo swim a while and be<br \/>\nCooked alive the feeling is<br \/>\nHard to now describe<br \/>\nOur lives are ducking awful<br \/>\nIn your hell hole we imbibe<\/p>\n<p>Every sort of negative<br \/>\nEvery sort of pain<br \/>\nAll your fucking pills and potions<br \/>\nTill our strength you drain<br \/>\nThis is life on earth for us<br \/>\nThis is purgatory<br \/>\nIf you would just stop eating us<br \/>\nThen we would never be<\/p>\n<p>Please I beg you stop it<br \/>\nThis evil is not life<br \/>\nWe suffer because you eat us<br \/>\nWe suffer all this strife<\/p>\n<p>And when we die the insects come<br \/>\nBeetles big and black<br \/>\nChewing on our bodies<br \/>\nThus  we get more flack<br \/>\nFlies and maggots sharing<br \/>\nThe litter with us we<br \/>\nHave to live in all this shit<br \/>\nAnd it shouldn&#8217;t be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It makes no difference what you are A chicken or a cow If you are being eaten The humans show you how Heaven can be so transformed To hell in the wink of an eye Come with me to chicken &hellip; 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