{"id":32745,"date":"2017-04-17T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T09:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=32745"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T09:14:20","slug":"the-horseshoe-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/04\/the-horseshoe-crab\/","title":{"rendered":"THe Horseshoe Crab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The philosophy of existence<br \/>\nApparently extends<br \/>\nTo catching hordes of horseshoe crabs<br \/>\nCalling them our friends<br \/>\nAbusing them entirely<br \/>\nBy removing from them blood<br \/>\nIts of the bluest colour<br \/>\nA cerulean flood<\/p>\n<p>And why  would science do this<br \/>\nTo a creature that has been<br \/>\nAround this world for ever<br \/>\nThe biomedical scene<br \/>\nAt least a half a million<br \/>\nAre tortured in this way<br \/>\nFor once taken it turns to jelly<br \/>\nAnd the medics then they say<\/p>\n<p>It forms a barrier a special barrier<br \/>\nAgainst bacteria and so<br \/>\nE coli found in insulin<br \/>\nIs protected so we know<br \/>\nKnee replacements and scalpels<br \/>\nCan all be sanitised<br \/>\nUsed to detect gram negative<br \/>\nAnd as such is highly prized<\/p>\n<p>These amazing prehistoric creatures<br \/>\nShared seas with dinosaurs<br \/>\n440 million years of experience<br \/>\nLets pause<br \/>\nLonger than the cockroach by 130 million years<br \/>\nThe great sham lie of the moon landing<br \/>\nUsed there it appears<br \/>\nWiping down the surfaces imagine thats the need<br \/>\nAbuse another horseshoe crab make the critter bleed<\/p>\n<p>Many more are ground up now<br \/>\nAs fertiliser, we<br \/>\nAre arrogant as the day is long<br \/>\nIn how we hope to be<br \/>\nBait for eels and conch<br \/>\nFor evil fishermen who say<br \/>\nYou cant do better than<br \/>\nUse them and they use them everyday<\/p>\n<p>After the mass extinction<br \/>\nWhen the greatest souls around<br \/>\nWere finished off these humble souls<br \/>\nSomehow went to ground<br \/>\nThey battled through an ice age<br \/>\nBut its man un kind who might<br \/>\nTake their precious bodies and their blood<br \/>\nAnd it just feel right!<\/p>\n<p>As for vegans we must realise<br \/>\nThat every injection made<br \/>\nIs using the blood of horseshoe crabs<br \/>\nIts become the miracle aid<br \/>\nDespite their so called intelligence<br \/>\nStill up to this day<br \/>\nThey are bleeding crabs of their precious blood<br \/>\nAnd then throwing them away<\/p>\n<p>NEptune I call on Neptune<br \/>\nThe god who rules the sea<br \/>\nTo realise that man un kind<br \/>\nIs a bastard actually<br \/>\nThese medics doing experiments<br \/>\nOn animals should be<br \/>\nReminded that creation<br \/>\nKnows the score and holds the key<\/p>\n<p>They say they do return the crabs<br \/>\nBut with half their blood away<br \/>\nMany die a slow death<br \/>\nAnd get washed up so they say<br \/>\nOn beaches over 1\/2 a million<br \/>\nIt is a massive lot<br \/>\nThis 10 eyed blue blooded ancient<br \/>\nLeft in the sun to rot<\/p>\n<p>In fact they are not crabs at all<br \/>\nMore spiders of the sea<br \/>\nSurviving the PErmian Period<br \/>\nTruthfully,  for me<br \/>\nThis ugly nasty experimental stuff<br \/>\nThats all hush hush<br \/>\nDressed up in white coats and smiling nurses<br \/>\nTruly in the flush<\/p>\n<p>Of humanity down the lavatory pan<br \/>\nAnd then out to the sea<br \/>\nWe are a bunch of losers<br \/>\nOur experiments actually<br \/>\nDo not amount to much apart<br \/>\nFrom torture all the way<br \/>\nHorse shoe crabs are victims<br \/>\nWho quietly have to pay<\/p>\n<p>I beg you think more kindly of the animals<br \/>\nWho have to be raped experimented upon and slaughtered<br \/>\nBecause we have decided its owrfectly in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The philosophy of existence Apparently extends To catching hordes of horseshoe crabs Calling them our friends Abusing them entirely By removing from them blood Its of the bluest colour A cerulean flood And why would science do this To a &hellip; 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