{"id":28563,"date":"2016-07-15T07:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=28563"},"modified":"2016-07-15T07:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T07:13:13","slug":"i-am-just-one-chick-of-the-billions-slaughtered-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/07\/i-am-just-one-chick-of-the-billions-slaughtered-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"I am just one chick of the billions slaughtered each year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To exist in a mist of confusion and chaos<br \/>\nWhere lovelessness comes and it goes<br \/>\nTo break through that shell from a given spell<br \/>\nWith this beak at the end of our nose<br \/>\nA chicken we be with a freedom to see<br \/>\nThe conveyor of life rolling free<br \/>\nWe are thrown by the hand born out of this land<br \/>\nInto an absurdity<\/p>\n<p>Futility ramps up the journey<br \/>\nWe sing with inglorious tones<br \/>\nWith The exaggeration of many<br \/>\nWho feel the life force in our bones<br \/>\nThe great revelation of being<br \/>\nOf seeing the realness of now<br \/>\nThe purity of the experience<br \/>\nOf wondering really just how<\/p>\n<p>Mankind could ever design this<br \/>\nThese great metal rollers so we<br \/>\nCould ride off to heaven an army of souls<br \/>\nDemonstrating our will to be free<br \/>\nUndisguised we are routed in different directions<br \/>\nHysteria surfaces and<br \/>\nThe shrieks are so loud that they deafen<br \/>\nAt the crossroads we can&#8217;t understand<\/p>\n<p>We anticipated an astonishing time<br \/>\nAnd some of us took that to be<br \/>\nDown the great chute back into the root<br \/>\nCausing our own catastrophe<br \/>\nGround up the pain of one moment<br \/>\nIn time a slush funded ordeal<br \/>\nFor once males were crushed and tragically brushed<br \/>\nOnto the great crushing wheel<\/p>\n<p>Feathers and all just the ghastliness pool<br \/>\nOf bodies and clouds of regret<br \/>\nA false dawn was had it all turn to bad<br \/>\nIll served and let down just a debt<br \/>\nIn the setback of life we were nothing<br \/>\nMeaningless fodder that&#8217;s all<br \/>\nTwaddling gibbering bundles of yellow<br \/>\nDown the great hatch we did fall<\/p>\n<p>The females were off to the cage lands<br \/>\nThey would be laying all day<br \/>\nPrisoners locked in such squalor<br \/>\nConcealed in a dirty wire tray<br \/>\nConfined in a cell with some others<br \/>\nDuped into thinking that they<br \/>\nWere living a life that a chicken should live<br \/>\nTill death with his sickle did play<\/p>\n<p>His part in their deaths and their memories<br \/>\nHung upside down on a wheel<br \/>\nThe great blade of death would tear off their heads<br \/>\nAnd the agony really was real<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s an urgency on the horizon<br \/>\nBound up with profits galore<br \/>\nAnd the cheap prices that keep us advancing<br \/>\nInto what is blood and gore<\/p>\n<p>We are the forever victims<br \/>\nThe chicks not for Easter for we<br \/>\nLost that true status now nobody rates us<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all about taste tragically<br \/>\nOur verve and our sparkle is over<br \/>\nWe chickens are destined for pies<br \/>\nOur drive and our forcefulness lost to the world<br \/>\nwith you lot not hearing our cries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To exist in a mist of confusion and chaos Where lovelessness comes and it goes To break through that shell from a given spell With this beak at the end of our nose A chicken we be with a freedom &hellip; 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