{"id":2925,"date":"2012-09-03T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T19:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2925"},"modified":"2013-03-22T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T17:12:32","slug":"castration-something-a-piglet-doesnt-look-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/castration-something-a-piglet-doesnt-look-forward-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Castration something a piglet doesn&#8217;t look forward to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Androstenone<br \/>\na steroid<br \/>\nproduced by its testes<br \/>\nmakes Boars aggressive<br \/>\nI hear<br \/>\nso some rotten sod<br \/>\nwho thinks they are god<br \/>\npulls their testicles off<br \/>\nnever fear<br \/>\nno painkillers they would<br \/>\nbe costly<br \/>\nno vet&#8217;s blimey they<br \/>\ncost a bomb<br \/>\ngrab hold of the poor piglets bollocks<br \/>\nrip them off<br \/>\nand  just smile with<br \/>\naplomb<br \/>\nnow Boar taint will<br \/>\nnot be a problem<br \/>\nand the apple sauce<br \/>\nwill taste a treat<br \/>\nthe piglet the poor little<br \/>\nsqueaky will taste better<br \/>\nwhen people eat,<br \/>\nwell he<br \/>\nsqueaks like the devil<br \/>\nand bleeds for a while<br \/>\nits a sort of swine<br \/>\ncontroversy<br \/>\nFactory farming<br \/>\nits all about scale<br \/>\nand keeping costs<br \/>\ndown naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Some piglets<br \/>\ndie the pain threshold<br \/>\nhigh<br \/>\nso they tend to be, tossed<br \/>\naway<br \/>\nImagine it being born<br \/>\ninto a world<br \/>\nlike this<br \/>\nwhere so soon<br \/>\nyou must pay<br \/>\nthe realization of profit<br \/>\nof margins and what role<br \/>\nthey play<br \/>\nand poor little squeaky<br \/>\nwhose just lost his balls<br \/>\nfor him<br \/>\nits a pretty sad day<br \/>\nso they clip off his tail<br \/>\nno pain killers used<br \/>\nits just one more reason<br \/>\nthat they are abused<br \/>\nand then its their teeth<br \/>\nwell you know Dentists Bills<br \/>\nthe same god like creature<br \/>\nis getting his thrills<br \/>\nclipping those molars<br \/>\nno gas no cocaine<br \/>\njust pair of old pliers<br \/>\nyes again and again<\/p>\n<p>This was castration<br \/>\ntail docking and why<br \/>\nwell they&#8217;re crammed<br \/>\nin so tightly together<br \/>\nthey might try<br \/>\nto eat one another<br \/>\nso that isn&#8217;t on<br \/>\nand why in a flash<br \/>\ntheir sweet tails are gone<\/p>\n<p>the life of a pig<br \/>\non a factory farm<br \/>\nis clearly a place<br \/>\nwell he will come to harm<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll be prodded and kicked<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll be branded may be<br \/>\nand at 200 pounds<br \/>\nwe know where he<\/p>\n<p>is off to the slaughterhouse<br \/>\nto the scalding tank<br \/>\nto remove those bristles<br \/>\nI mean to be frank<br \/>\nthen his throat slit<br \/>\nand his blood it will be<br \/>\ncollected<br \/>\nblack pudding with<br \/>\nspices for tea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Factory Farmers have developed this means of castration its cheap and effective, in other words it does the job and just a few other techniques before Heaven beckons <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/castration-something-a-piglet-doesnt-look-forward-to\/\">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":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925","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=2925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6930,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2925\/revisions\/6930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}