{"id":23717,"date":"2015-10-06T08:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T08:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23717"},"modified":"2015-10-06T08:33:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T08:33:08","slug":"animals-and-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/animals-and-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals and tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism accounts for many many millions<br \/>\nAnd how they go about it seriously<br \/>\nDoes affect the animals for Elephants<br \/>\nReally get a hard time as we see<br \/>\nElephant rides and safari&#8217;s<br \/>\nAre big business<br \/>\nMany of the leading lights agree<br \/>\nAnd have banned these trips<br \/>\nFor what goes into them<br \/>\nIs months and months of<br \/>\nSerious cruelty<\/p>\n<p>It makes no sense to do this to these animals<br \/>\nJust so zoos and other places can<br \/>\nMake some extra money from expecting<br \/>\n<strong>The elephants to carry the human<br \/>\nOn trips around the countryside<br \/>\nWe have to see<br \/>\nIt really isn&#8217;t the right thing now to do<br \/>\nThomas Cook is being asked to sign up too a pledge<br \/>\nMaybe they are deciding if its true<\/p>\n<p>Clearly they are apparently not as willing<br \/>\nTo drop the elephant stuff as quick as some<br \/>\nClearly there is money with this business<br \/>\nAnd tourists themselves many still are numb<br \/>\nTo how much cruelty there is in the industry<br \/>\nPerhaps we have to emphasise this too<br \/>\nGet the people&#8217;s total realisation<br \/>\nThat Elephants can&#8217;t be subjected as we do<\/p>\n<p>To the cruelty and training that is thrown at them<br \/>\nSeparating the children from their mothers<br \/>\nAnd giving them heavy training so as to<br \/>\nBreak their spirit damage them forever<br \/>\nWhich is what they really have to do<br \/>\nElephants don&#8217;t see their role as vehicles<br \/>\nThey were never mean&#8217;t to walk on tarmac roads<br \/>\nElephants feet are not made for so doing<br \/>\nThey carry their own weight and that is loads<\/p>\n<p>As human beings we must see ahead of what is happening<br \/>\nWhere there is cruelty we ourselves must know<br \/>\nAnd not subscribe to this profiteering at the animals expense<br \/>\nThey really shouldn&#8217;t be part of the show<br \/>\nThey are wild the biggest of land animals<br \/>\nGive them due respect for who they are<br \/>\nNot bull hook them into participation<br \/>\nIts wrong on all counts for what we do is scar<\/p>\n<p>Them make them feel so wretched in the moment<br \/>\nDisturb their family life and general health<br \/>\nElephants are not made to be our slaves not any more<br \/>\nAs un paid  workers adding to our wealth<br \/>\nWild is wild and they should be respected<br \/>\nNot worked to death and tortured constantly<br \/>\nThomas Cook can I appeal to you on behalf of the wild ones<br \/>\nLook inside your heart and it will be<\/p>\n<p>Obvious what it is we are doing<br \/>\nDegrading ourselves for the money trail<br \/>\nElephants are primarily wild animals<br \/>\nAnd taking them for a ride is where we fail<br \/>\nThey are we know amazingly good natured<br \/>\nThey take our discipline but not easily<br \/>\nMan is far from kind at making money<br \/>\nAnd as we evolve we really ought to see<\/p>\n<p>I am sure in my own mind. Thomas Cook and any other operator<br \/>\nWill see this point of view and ensure the wildness and naturalness of elephants is maintained.thats my hope anyway<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism accounts for many many millions And how they go about it seriously Does affect the animals for Elephants Really get a hard time as we see Elephant rides and safari&#8217;s Are big business Many of the leading lights agree &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/animals-and-tourism\/\">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":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elephants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717","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=23717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23719,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions\/23719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}