{"id":23556,"date":"2015-09-29T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T09:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T10:04:59","slug":"enter-the-cow-the-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/enter-the-cow-the-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Cow ( the FEMALE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are stages to consider<br \/>\nLet us open our eyes and see<br \/>\n10 men dressed in yellow<br \/>\nIn togetherness they be<\/p>\n<p>Manhandle this poor female<br \/>\nPull and tug and strain<br \/>\nShe doesn&#8217;t want to come inside<br \/>\nWhat is there to gain<\/p>\n<p>From being tugged and violated<br \/>\nShe who knows much grief<br \/>\nShe who has lost her babies<br \/>\nTo the dairy beyond belief<\/p>\n<p>She who has carried each baby<br \/>\nThrough the pregnancy<br \/>\nSuffered all the heartaches<br \/>\nAnd the misery<\/p>\n<p>And now she is being led into<br \/>\nThe slaughterhouse where she<br \/>\nIs expected to give her life away<br \/>\nTo be slaughtered painfully<\/p>\n<p>Of course she tries to fight them<br \/>\nBut ten men overwhelm<br \/>\nAnd so slowly she is pulled and tugged<br \/>\nWith the leader at the helm<\/p>\n<p>Halal of course and kosher rules<br \/>\nThe death methods most use<br \/>\nIts all done and dusted<br \/>\nThe corporates abuse<\/p>\n<p>So nothing new there<br \/>\nWe can see the hosing down<br \/>\nAnd they<br \/>\nLock her into a death contraption<br \/>\nShe cannot get away<\/p>\n<p>This knot of death clasps her<br \/>\nAnd the man, the butcher he<br \/>\nGet his knife slashes her throat<br \/>\nWith such vulgarity<\/p>\n<p>Lack of respect for a dying female<br \/>\nHe then cleans off the blade<br \/>\nBy rubbing it on her dying head<br \/>\nUn hymned yet on parade<\/p>\n<p>Pulled back and lifted by one leg<br \/>\nTo swing and be away<br \/>\nTo where the butchers all in yellow<br \/>\nWill joint her up and say<\/p>\n<p>The price that all cows suffer<br \/>\nDeath their allotted space<br \/>\nShe really wanted to be alive<br \/>\nIn a green field place<\/p>\n<p>But that was just a pipe dream<br \/>\nThe human beings they<br \/>\nDrain the poor of all they have<br \/>\nBefore they go away<\/p>\n<p>The colour of their garments<br \/>\ndid seem right to me<br \/>\nYellow stands for cowardice<br \/>\nWhich all of us could see<\/p>\n<p>The patriarchal power base<br \/>\nIs literally everywhere<br \/>\nAnd cows the female of the species<br \/>\nOnly know despair.<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who drink their milk<br \/>\nOr its by product should know<br \/>\nThose of you who eat her flesh<br \/>\nWho wear her leather show<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the female terror<br \/>\nPlayed out on each cow<br \/>\nShe stands for fairness and  a loving life<br \/>\nAnd You must ask yourselves, how?<\/p>\n<p>You cannot see yourselves in her<br \/>\nYou cannot feel her pain<br \/>\nAnd thinking on the words my dears<br \/>\nHow you might now refrain<\/p>\n<p>From adding to her agony<br \/>\nFrom giving them a case<br \/>\nStop eating her stop wearing her<br \/>\nGive her a little grace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are stages to consider Let us open our eyes and see 10 men dressed in yellow In togetherness they be Manhandle this poor female Pull and tug and strain She doesn&#8217;t want to come inside What is there to &hellip; 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