{"id":33921,"date":"2017-08-28T17:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=33921"},"modified":"2017-08-28T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:56:57","slug":"the-faroes-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-faroes-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The faroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>200 miles from Scotland<br \/>\nRugged cliffs proclaim<br \/>\nA pardise of seabirds<br \/>\nA people who are game<br \/>\nTo run the ocean gauntlet<br \/>\nTo drive the pilot whales<br \/>\nWhole pods of them onto their beaches<br \/>\nTo the shallow water trails<\/p>\n<p>Idyllic sandy beaches<br \/>\nAn army of murdering scum<br \/>\nWith all their certified weaponry<br \/>\nEncouraging them to come<br \/>\nThe loyalty so evident<br \/>\nOf wounded family souls<br \/>\nNo pilot whale will leave them<br \/>\nEach take heric roles<\/p>\n<p>This is just their make up<br \/>\nCowardly they are not<br \/>\nThey are valiant and chivalrous<br \/>\nSo much so the lot<br \/>\nWould never leave an injured friend<br \/>\nAnd the murderers know this<br \/>\nUnbowed and unflinching<br \/>\nUntil the very end<\/p>\n<p>And ofcourse the end is inevitable<br \/>\nThe army brandishing knives<br \/>\nAnd lances just no chances<br \/>\nTo escape with their lives<br \/>\nChildren cut to ribbons parents<br \/>\nEveryone<br \/>\nThe sea taken on a claret hue<br \/>\nAs tonne after tonne<\/p>\n<p>Are pulled ashore the people<br \/>\nClothed and all wet through<br \/>\nAbsolutely smothered in blood<br \/>\nThese islanders are true<br \/>\nTo tradition so they tell us<br \/>\nDesensitized are they<br \/>\nAlongside their children<br \/>\nBloodied in the bay<\/p>\n<p>Are these people starving<br \/>\nDenmark does not whale<br \/>\nBut allows the faroes islanders<br \/>\nTo just go off the rail<br \/>\nTo create this evil blood bath<br \/>\nAnd participate and cry<br \/>\nBlood curdling sounds of terror<br \/>\nUnderneath the sky<\/p>\n<p>They eat lamb a plenty<br \/>\nAnd fulmar caught at sea<br \/>\nPuffins yes and puffin eggs<br \/>\nLess and less now be<br \/>\nInto killing wild whales<br \/>\nFor they know the mercury<br \/>\nAnd pcb&#8217;s and DDT<br \/>\nAnd so much else now be<\/p>\n<p>Really its a blood sport<br \/>\nIts ghastly and the world<br \/>\nLooking on and what they do<br \/>\nEach family being hurled<br \/>\nCut to ribbons sawn to pieces<br \/>\nIn the sick melee<br \/>\nA blood letting of intelligent friends<br \/>\nA real catastrophe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>200 miles from Scotland Rugged cliffs proclaim A pardise of seabirds A people who are game To run the ocean gauntlet To drive the pilot whales Whole pods of them onto their beaches To the shallow water trails Idyllic sandy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/08\/the-faroes-4\/\">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":[173,4,216,147,211,112,245,138,115,268,151,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-animal-sacrifice","category-animals-used-for-food","category-fish-farming-and-itsbimplications","category-orcas-and-dolphins","category-patriarchal-arrogance-makes-for-danger","category-sea-birds-and-bird-stories","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd","category-wild-and-farmed-fish","category-wild-and-farmed-salmon","category-wild-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921","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=33921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33923,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921\/revisions\/33923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}