{"id":26388,"date":"2016-02-17T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=26388"},"modified":"2016-02-17T16:53:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T16:53:03","slug":"just-one-of-the-billions-of-make-chicks-born-in-egg-laying-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/just-one-of-the-billions-of-make-chicks-born-in-egg-laying-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one of the billions of male chicks born in egg laying farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came to be<br \/>\nLife was mine<br \/>\nExistence started<br \/>\nI knew the sign<br \/>\nA realness an actuality<br \/>\nFlesh and blood<br \/>\nIntrinsically<\/p>\n<p>A temper a humour<br \/>\nA disposition<br \/>\nMy characteristics<br \/>\nNow on a mission<br \/>\nAtavistic involved I be<br \/>\nIn what is abject harmony<\/p>\n<p>I have my own identity<br \/>\nAnd a basic joy<br \/>\nThat I can see<br \/>\nThe stacks of eggs<br \/>\nStill to be<br \/>\nHatched and hopefully<br \/>\nTo join me<\/p>\n<p>They say I look<br \/>\nLike my mama<br \/>\nShe was always<br \/>\nMy favourite star<br \/>\nWe are the army<br \/>\nSo many here<br \/>\nA cacophony of sounds<br \/>\nAnd cheer<\/p>\n<p>Off we go on great conveyor<br \/>\nWho knows where<br \/>\nMoving quite fast<br \/>\nChirping in a joyous laughter<br \/>\nFreedom we are clearly cast<\/p>\n<p>Into the great void of being<br \/>\nThe beginning of our life<br \/>\nThe commencement of our journey<br \/>\nThe invention of such strife<br \/>\nA maiden voyage on these steel rollers<br \/>\nDown a chute into a place<br \/>\nInto a termination quarter<br \/>\nInto what is a disgrace<\/p>\n<p>A bitter end and lost enchantment<br \/>\nA terminal of no return<br \/>\nThe coup de grace our final curtain<br \/>\nThe home stretch where the babies burn<br \/>\nThe bitter end the dissolution<br \/>\nThey apply our closure and the pain<br \/>\nGreat teeth just grind us into nothing<br \/>\nAnd this is happening again and again<\/p>\n<p>A slurry of what was live joy<br \/>\nEach heart beat heard till they employ<br \/>\nThe beastly scientific steel<br \/>\nThat renders us into a meal<br \/>\nFor cats and dogs or may be you<br \/>\nWho like your pie or chicken stew<\/p>\n<p>Or we could end up in a bag<br \/>\nOut in  the yard where some hag<br \/>\nChucks us thousands of us lie<br \/>\nAble still to see the sky<br \/>\nBut only for a short time now<br \/>\nBecause more and more which is how<br \/>\nWe are crushed and left to die<br \/>\nMale chicks yea we scream out why?<\/p>\n<p>We are perfect we can think<br \/>\nWe can see and hear the brink<br \/>\nWhy do we die why is  that fair<br \/>\nBecause there are no prophets out  there<br \/>\nRobotic minds and margins high<br \/>\nBanksters all  expect to fly<br \/>\nWe are fodder for their guns<br \/>\nWe are rubbish in their runs<\/p>\n<p>Time waits for no one alas<br \/>\nMale chicks are the new morass<br \/>\nThe only synchronicity<br \/>\nIs instant death crushed rapidly<br \/>\nAll our newness and innovation<br \/>\nWere no guarantee of our salvation<br \/>\nWe were upstarts fledgelings who<br \/>\nCame to die and quickly too<\/p>\n<p>Write offs bankers terms we were<br \/>\nOur destiny was how they err<br \/>\nOur expectation and our desire<br \/>\nSoon became part of their fire<br \/>\nThe impending threat was clearly set<br \/>\nWe were born and in so much debt<br \/>\nThey were unconscious to how we feel<br \/>\nIn their own torpor so very real<br \/>\nWe were helpless without resource<br \/>\nFrom birth to death all stayed on course<\/p>\n<p>Our destruction was written down<br \/>\nLiquidation in ourselves we drown<br \/>\nIn the blood and guts of each other we<br \/>\nBreathe our last breath and immediacy<br \/>\nThe great big vandal in the sky<br \/>\nYour fucking god who speaks his lie<br \/>\nInside our shell we heard him say<br \/>\nYour life begins dear ones today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came to be Life was mine Existence started I knew the sign A realness an actuality Flesh and blood Intrinsically A temper a humour A disposition My characteristics Now on a mission Atavistic involved I be In what is &hellip; 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