{"id":2890,"date":"2012-08-31T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2013-03-19T18:15:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:15:25","slug":"the-dairy-cows-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-dairy-cows-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dairy Cow&#8217;s lament might lead to your&#8217;s too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When food is big business<br \/>\nWatch yields follow suit<br \/>\nTake Milk from Dear Buttercup<br \/>\nAin&#8217;t she a Beaut!<br \/>\nShe was so happy<br \/>\nHer calf by her side<br \/>\nBut she&#8217;s now a machine<br \/>\nFeeling empty inside<\/p>\n<p>She use to give about<br \/>\n2 quarts every day<br \/>\nBut now its reached<br \/>\nwell over 20 they say<br \/>\nSome cows give 50<br \/>\nand that is a lot<br \/>\nMore than she needs<br \/>\nFor the calf in her pot<\/p>\n<p>That is the problem<br \/>\nThe Cow is our slave<br \/>\nShe dies when she dries<br \/>\nAnd she dries when her grave<br \/>\nBeckons<br \/>\nAlas she&#8217;s not buried<br \/>\nwe eat<br \/>\nWe kill her, our slave<br \/>\nand we then call her meat<\/p>\n<p>Such a wonderful name<br \/>\nfor our slave in the pen<br \/>\nWho gave us her body<br \/>\nwhich fed many men<br \/>\nBut at least in Cow Heaven<br \/>\nShe has the last<br \/>\nLaugh it would seem<br \/>\nFor some will feel the blast<\/p>\n<p>as their arteries harden<br \/>\ntheir hearts on the blink<br \/>\nfat in their kidneys<br \/>\nYes, there&#8217;s a link<br \/>\nWhen Food is big business<br \/>\nMany lose sight<br \/>\nAnd some lose their life too<br \/>\nWhen the Time&#8217;s right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The milk of human kindness may be the death of you rather quicker than you imagined <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/08\/the-dairy-cows-lament\/\">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":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6706,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/6706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}