{"id":32624,"date":"2017-04-04T14:13:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32624"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:16:32","slug":"tears-and-my-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/tears-and-my-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears and my food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Females and males<br \/>\nThat happen to be<br \/>\nFood for the conventional<br \/>\nYea family<\/p>\n<p>Cows give us milk leather<br \/>\nAnd meat<br \/>\nChicks are given life<br \/>\nBut if they are male<br \/>\nDown the street<\/p>\n<p>To the grinder<br \/>\nThey are sexed<br \/>\nOn their conveyor belt ride<br \/>\nChirping for Easter<br \/>\nTo the other side<\/p>\n<p>Straight into the grinder<br \/>\nThey become slop<br \/>\nFeather and bits of shell<br \/>\nIt doesnt stop<\/p>\n<p>The cow a proud mother<br \/>\nRaped by some arm<br \/>\nA plastic sheath<br \/>\nSome bloke off the farm<br \/>\nNot an  ounce of compassion<br \/>\nNo respect for females<br \/>\nWhen the baby arrives<br \/>\nThats when it all fails<\/p>\n<p>Kidnapped our babies<br \/>\nWe carried them long<br \/>\nAnd what humans do here<br \/>\nOfcourse it is  wrong<\/p>\n<p>Dosed up on chemicals<br \/>\nNo fresh grass here<br \/>\nMastitis and agony<br \/>\nYea its all clear<\/p>\n<p>Nobody loves us<br \/>\nNobody cares<br \/>\nThen we are milked and milked<br \/>\nSo much it scares<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;re made pregnant<br \/>\nNo love in sight<br \/>\nRaped by the arm<br \/>\nEach day feels like night<\/p>\n<p>Babe comes its kidnapped<br \/>\nAnd Carted away<br \/>\nWe can just sob<br \/>\nIf we can,  find some hay<\/p>\n<p>Now its live exports<br \/>\nTrucked to the port<br \/>\nHauled individually by crane<br \/>\nI would have thought<\/p>\n<p>Some other means<br \/>\nBut no empathy<br \/>\nJust hauled like a sack of shit<br \/>\nAll swinging free<\/p>\n<p>People can see us<br \/>\nDropped into the hold<br \/>\nWhich has damaged my legs<br \/>\nAnd I feel cold<\/p>\n<p>It must be the shock<br \/>\nAnd no food or drink<br \/>\nAnd of course no respect<br \/>\nI feel myself sink<\/p>\n<p>The journey is  loathsome<br \/>\nWe rock too and fro<br \/>\nFalling about<br \/>\nThis is no way to go<\/p>\n<p>Its getting hotter<br \/>\nWe smell the sand<br \/>\nThe gutters the dockside<br \/>\nSoon we make land<\/p>\n<p>Roped up and led off<br \/>\nInto the hot street<br \/>\nSome guy with a machete<br \/>\nCuts off my feet<\/p>\n<p>The agony reaches my heart<br \/>\nAnd my head<br \/>\nAnd the last thing I see<br \/>\nIs, as I fall dead<\/p>\n<p>Drowning in my own blood<br \/>\nThats what they do<br \/>\nAnimals rights<br \/>\nOr wrongs<\/p>\n<p>Whats your view?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Females and males That happen to be Food for the conventional Yea family Cows give us milk leather And meat Chicks are given life But if they are male Down the street To the grinder They are sexed On their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/tears-and-my-food\/\">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":[173,104,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls","category-chickens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624","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=32624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32626,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32624\/revisions\/32626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}