{"id":2570,"date":"2012-07-31T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2013-03-19T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:15:37","slug":"why-i-became-vegan-and-stayed-the-course-till-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/why-i-became-vegan-and-stayed-the-course-till-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I became Vegan and stayed the course till now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving school a stint with<br \/>\nMacrobiotics<br \/>\n7 years of wisdom from the East<br \/>\nI was studying Chinese<br \/>\nin my spare time<br \/>\nand from time to time<br \/>\nenjoyed a Chinese feast<br \/>\nSharks fins are abysmal<br \/>\nthey are terrible<br \/>\nwhat is really<br \/>\na cartilaginous mass<br \/>\nwith chicken stock<br \/>\nand all this for a bowl of gloop<br \/>\nsharks are being slaughtered<br \/>\nin their millions<br \/>\nand the way its being done is bloody crass<br \/>\nI say this, because, the<br \/>\nShark is almost perfect<br \/>\nan apex predator that we can say<br \/>\nand made to be<br \/>\npart of the wondrous ocean<br \/>\nand to cut their fins<br \/>\nand just throw them away<br \/>\nis vile, its cruel<br \/>\nits really rather typical<br \/>\nof those people with no respect<br \/>\nat all<br \/>\nthey sacrifice the souls<br \/>\nso that human&#8217;s can<br \/>\nindulge themselves<br \/>\nit shows you<br \/>\nmost are just not on the ball<\/p>\n<p>Fishing that&#8217;s another<br \/>\nwasteful energy<br \/>\nprofit, quota&#8217;s margin&#8217;s<br \/>\nits about, money for the corporates<br \/>\nthe great huge factory ships<br \/>\nand now the farming companies<br \/>\nwe have to get to grips<br \/>\nwith so much sick technology<br \/>\nwith serious damage to<br \/>\nthe eco system across the species<br \/>\ndoing what they do<br \/>\nCatching, all shapes and sizes<br \/>\nTrawling, Dredging, We<br \/>\nslaughter many species<br \/>\nin our hope and mastery<br \/>\nagain its for the carnivores<br \/>\nwho expect the fish to be<br \/>\nalways waiting on their plates<br \/>\nand they now, clear the sea<br \/>\nand its a place, a dustbin<br \/>\nfor the filth that we produce<br \/>\nour excrement, our chemicals<br \/>\nour plastics, I deduce<br \/>\nradioactive discharge, oil<br \/>\nand diesel too<br \/>\nnuclear waste its must be faced<br \/>\na highly toxic stew<br \/>\ncarnivores expecting<br \/>\nlive souls to be there<br \/>\nfat and healthy on their plates<br \/>\namazingly unaware<\/p>\n<p>of what is really going on<br \/>\nunderneath the sea<br \/>\nthe massive over fishing<br \/>\nand bad practice now that we<br \/>\na death knell for the species<br \/>\nand carnivores are to blame<br \/>\nit cannot be the vegans<br \/>\nfor they&#8217;re not part of the game<br \/>\nthe carnivores dead from the neck up<br \/>\ndo not feel that pain<br \/>\nthey cannot see the carnage<br \/>\nthey only see the gain<br \/>\nIts selfish, its abominable<br \/>\nits ignorance, but they<br \/>\nexpect their cans on supermarket<br \/>\nshelves for that&#8217;s the way<\/p>\n<p>Oysters, Mussels, Cockles Whelks<br \/>\nLobsters, Crabs and Abalone<br \/>\nFiltering the mucky water<br \/>\nour generous filth is not alone<br \/>\nwe&#8217;re pissing in the cooking pot<br \/>\nof life that&#8217;s what we feel<br \/>\nother species, foods we utilise<br \/>\nkrill and sand eel<br \/>\nstealing from the mouths of babes<br \/>\nthe whales and the  sea birds<br \/>\nthe carnivores their wholesale greed<br \/>\nreally there&#8217;s no words<br \/>\nthey come and slaughter night and day<br \/>\nplunder, pilfer, steal<br \/>\ndestruction of the corals too<br \/>\nthat is what they do<br \/>\nTuna there&#8217;s another mighty fish<br \/>\nand once again<br \/>\nits loaded full of PCB&#8217;s<br \/>\nand Mercury, and pain<br \/>\nJohn West and loads of others<br \/>\nare canning it like hell<br \/>\nand catching it in their millions<br \/>\nbut few around will tell<br \/>\nSeine nets are really wretched<br \/>\nindiscriminately they kill<br \/>\nthe Albatross, the Turtles<br \/>\na lot of blood they spill<br \/>\nSharks and Dolphins, Pilot Whales<br \/>\nand Marlin too do die<br \/>\nsay paying 40 pence a can<br \/>\nand putting it in your pie<\/p>\n<p>Vegan&#8217;s realise the serious<br \/>\nnature of the world<br \/>\nthe terrible microcosm<br \/>\nin which we&#8217;ve all been hurled<br \/>\nanimals eating GM soya<br \/>\nwith people starving and<br \/>\nforests being cleared of trees<br \/>\nso as to use the land<br \/>\nfor cows, for beef, for leather<br \/>\nthe vegan of course sees<br \/>\nthe need to keep the forests<br \/>\nand the mangroves, as the keys<br \/>\nto the planets equilibrium<br \/>\nbut not the carnivores<br \/>\nnot the bloody TV chefs<br \/>\nand the corporates loud applause<br \/>\njokes are made of vegans<br \/>\nof buck teeth and big ears<br \/>\nthey fail to see the murmurings<br \/>\nthe terror and the fears<br \/>\nthe Halal killings day and night<br \/>\nthe blight that this does cause<br \/>\nevery second of every hour<br \/>\nthere now is just no pause<br \/>\ncows and calves and pigs and sows<br \/>\nand lambs and goats are all<br \/>\nbeing tortured, sacrificed<br \/>\nupon each blood stained wall<br \/>\nBut the carnivores can&#8217;t see it<br \/>\nwon&#8217;t see it, they can&#8217;t bear<br \/>\nto even think its happening<br \/>\nthey too so unaware<br \/>\nHumanity is crumbling<br \/>\nthe holocaust is here<br \/>\nits happening behind close doors<br \/>\nsuch adversity,such fear<br \/>\nanimal earthlings dying<br \/>\nor being exploited by<br \/>\nthe corporates, the super stores<br \/>\nthe wholesalers and why<br \/>\nbecause the dumbed down masses<br \/>\nare now dictated to<br \/>\nby the Meat Trade<br \/>\nand the TV chefs<br \/>\nand by all and sundry who<br \/>\ndose these willing docile souls<br \/>\nup with drugs and more<br \/>\nunbalancing the carnivores<br \/>\nlike, never before<br \/>\ninjecting GM bugs and viruses<br \/>\nflesh  full now, and<br \/>\nit not only affects consumers<br \/>\nbut it also affects the land<br \/>\nanimals wastes pollute our water<br \/>\nand pollute our air<br \/>\nwe vegans have the right to say<br \/>\nthat we are so aware<br \/>\nwe pay our rates and you carnivores<br \/>\nare creating havoc here<br \/>\neveryone is suffering<br \/>\nbut you just won&#8217;t appear<br \/>\nto understand the gist of it<br \/>\nyour judgement is off par<br \/>\ncancers and heart disease are rife<br \/>\noh! yes Oh! yes they are<br \/>\nOrganic vegans really<br \/>\ncare, their ethos is supreme<br \/>\nthey don&#8217;t allow the pesticides<br \/>\nthat now float in the stream<br \/>\nthat maim and scar<br \/>\nthe universe<br \/>\nthat get into the sea<br \/>\nthat kill the corals everywhere<br \/>\nand soon no where will be<br \/>\nfree from animal wastes<br \/>\nand all the chemicals they use<br \/>\nfood thats wasted on them<br \/>\nthat really does abuse<br \/>\nthe planet as the forests die<br \/>\nand habitats decline<br \/>\nand the wild souls living in them<br \/>\nhave no where left to dine<br \/>\nwhole grains had great balance<br \/>\nwith nutrients galore<br \/>\nbut the carnivores are out there<br \/>\nwanting more and more<br \/>\nrefined food, fast food, crap food<br \/>\nwhich the corporates provide<br \/>\nyou fall into their deadly trap<br \/>\nits like mass suicide<br \/>\nif more of us were vegan<br \/>\nthe planet it would see<br \/>\nless people starving on this earth<br \/>\nfor the animals would be<br \/>\nonly those that were needed<br \/>\nnot the clones and massive herds<br \/>\nfed on half the soya that&#8217;s produced<br \/>\nI&#8217;m lost for words<br \/>\nand the great lungs of the planet<br \/>\nhave been razed to the ground<br \/>\nand has now brought forth<br \/>\nthe super weeds where the super bugs<br \/>\nabound<br \/>\nI am an ethical vegan<br \/>\nthis is what I do<br \/>\nYou carnivores should listen<br \/>\nfor what I say is true<br \/>\nI have no axe to grind here<br \/>\nI too, must survive<br \/>\nbut killing and torturing animals<br \/>\nis no way to stay alive<br \/>\nAnd pandering to the corporates<br \/>\nis as foolish as can be<br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t listen and listen good<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be back in slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>why veganism Part 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/07\/why-i-became-vegan-and-stayed-the-course-till-now\/\">Continue reading <span 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