{"id":29935,"date":"2016-10-19T09:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T09:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29935"},"modified":"2016-10-19T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T10:34:36","slug":"pedals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/10\/pedals\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pedals&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who live where wild life lives<br \/>\nThose iconic souls<br \/>\nAre just taken for granted<br \/>\nDespite their special roles<br \/>\nThe black bear in New Jersey<br \/>\nSome 3000 or more I hear<br \/>\nAre sacrificed like some disease<br \/>\nEvery single year<\/p>\n<p>And they talk about it as pest control<br \/>\nYet they use the amateurs who<br \/>\nCan hardly see the target let alone<br \/>\nTo shoot them through<br \/>\nIt all comes back to money<br \/>\nThe Bears don&#8217;t stand a chance<br \/>\nBaited and shot at close range<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s no song or dance<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s killing off a species<br \/>\nMothers and fathers too<br \/>\nDisabled bears and babies<br \/>\nThis is what they do<br \/>\nThese red neck confounded Cowboys types<br \/>\nThis is what they do<br \/>\nAnd what they did was kill a disabled bear<br \/>\nAnd that they drew<\/p>\n<p>Criticism obviously<br \/>\nThe total number they<br \/>\nShot against the total number<br \/>\nWalking around each day<br \/>\nRooting through the dustbins<br \/>\nFrightening the dogs<br \/>\nRecorded as sighting<br \/>\nPerhaps some chasing hogs<\/p>\n<p>They are really not the problem<br \/>\nThat the hunting clan would, feel<br \/>\nThere is no need to kill so many bears<br \/>\nAnd to conceal<br \/>\nThe reasons that they do this<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a cruel and nasty way<br \/>\nOf getting a weekends shooting in<br \/>\nAnd making the wild ones pay<\/p>\n<p>Somebody came forward and said he shot the bear<br \/>\nAnd then went onto the Facebook page<br \/>\nTo make them  aware<br \/>\nThen denied he had done this<br \/>\nWho knows  what he did<br \/>\nThe fact he even said this<br \/>\nMeans  we really should get rid<\/p>\n<p>Of all these pesky hunters<br \/>\nThey are killers after all<br \/>\nAnd may go onto killing folk<br \/>\nThe trangression tends to rule<br \/>\nThe psyche and the madness<br \/>\nThat these so called hunters bring<br \/>\nMade happy by the sight of blood<br \/>\nAnd for them it becomes their thing<\/p>\n<p>549 bears have lost their lives<br \/>\nOn this hunt weekend<br \/>\nThe first three days with bows and arrows<br \/>\nThe Cowboys they defend<br \/>\nThe right to go and do this<br \/>\nFor me a bunch of fools<br \/>\nPedals was lured with a special sauce<br \/>\nBut that it was done at all<br \/>\nNow calls<\/p>\n<p>A certain kind of wickedness<br \/>\nRight Into the frame<br \/>\nAnd a complete loss of consciousness<br \/>\nThat for me does inflame<br \/>\nEvery kind of evil<br \/>\nAnd unpardonable disgrace<br \/>\nAnd every kind of ugly<br \/>\nSlapped right across their face<\/p>\n<p>The bear must have been startled<br \/>\nBy the transgression of man<br \/>\nClearly being disabled must have thought<br \/>\nThe plan<br \/>\nWas not to harm a disabled bear<br \/>\nAnd so to find out he<br \/>\nWas targeted by the low life<br \/>\nMust have hurt him terribly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who live where wild life lives Those iconic souls Are just taken for granted Despite their special roles The black bear in New Jersey Some 3000 or more I hear Are sacrificed like some disease Every single year And &hellip; 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