{"id":330,"date":"2011-11-27T21:48:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T21:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2013-09-14T06:40:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T06:40:30","slug":"more-on-foie-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/more-on-foie-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Foie Gras ( I have 2 written many more) on this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Its going to be hard to ban this Foie Gras<br \/>\n<!--more-->For the rich and famous tragically desire<br \/>\nThe big shops love to sell it<br \/>\nAnd the French and others make it<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot of profit<br \/>\nIn it,but a fire<br \/>\nBurns hotter in the hearts of many activists<br \/>\nWho see it as a vile and awful food<br \/>\nForce feeding Ducks and Geese<br \/>\nThe practice now must cease<br \/>\nBut where there&#8217;s money<br \/>\nIt matters not how crude<br \/>\nThe practice is<br \/>\nRamming tubes hard down their throats<br \/>\nAnd pumping in the corn until<br \/>\nthey cry<br \/>\nTill their livers grow to a grotesque size<br \/>\nand are pumped with fat<br \/>\nThe truth is tragically the birds<br \/>\nare fed like this until the day they die<br \/>\nFatty Liver thats the mean translation<br \/>\nA diseased liver brought on<br \/>\nby the way<br \/>\nWe fed them, and we ill treat them<br \/>\ntortured all of their short lives<br \/>\nAnd many diners possibly may pay<br \/>\nNot only the exorbitant price<br \/>\ntheir charging them, but the fact<br \/>\nthat its a most unhealthy food<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say<br \/>\nKarmically to order it must sadly weigh<br \/>\nagainst you<br \/>\nI do believe this product is as crude<br \/>\nAs anything that&#8217;s out there in the market place<br \/>\nit puts in question processing for me<br \/>\nTorture and the the way these birds are treated<br \/>\nFor them death must be welcome can&#8217;t you see?<\/p>\n<p>It is something we should ban now right away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written many poems about Foie Gras over the last 10 years its still is served in the so called posh restaurants  servicing the rich and famous and some of the high class food shops in and around the world.It is a crude process involving cruelty and should be banned.My friend Lisa Dani reminded be again about it today and I felt the need to write another poem about it <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/11\/more-on-foie-gras\/\">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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foie-gras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11028,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/11028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}