{"id":34493,"date":"2017-11-05T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=34493"},"modified":"2017-11-05T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T09:23:38","slug":"a-mahogany-bull-from-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-mahogany-bull-from-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"A mahogany bull from Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unconscious and impassive<br \/>\nInsensitive and numb<br \/>\nNegligent and spiritless<br \/>\nA coarseness that has some<br \/>\nOf us  feeling sick inside our<br \/>\nStomachs when we see<br \/>\nHow animals must suffer<br \/>\nAnd how it seems to be<\/p>\n<p>gabriel was a mahogany bull<br \/>\nRaised on pastures green<br \/>\nLots of rich wild clover<br \/>\nReally where he had been<br \/>\nWas heavenly his arousal<br \/>\nWas the sun up in the sky<br \/>\nThe rapture and the total joy<br \/>\nOf living on a  high<\/p>\n<p>But he would be a live export<br \/>\nTo the land of the Pharoes where<br \/>\nA filthy dirty slaughterhouse<br \/>\nWould witness his despair<br \/>\nHis utter degradation<br \/>\nHis torture and his pain<br \/>\nCare of the bloody meat trade<br \/>\nHis blood was going to stain<\/p>\n<p>The sand for ever and ever<br \/>\nHis anguish and his woe<br \/>\nHe in a waking nightmare<br \/>\nWith just no where to go<br \/>\nPurgatory promised<br \/>\nDiscomfort all the way<br \/>\nOn the rack and bleeding<br \/>\nThey would make him pay<\/p>\n<p>Stabbed his ears and eyes<br \/>\nAnd cut his tendons through<br \/>\nImagine the terrible agony<br \/>\nIf that was done to you<br \/>\nA hook thrust through his nostrils<br \/>\nAnd his ton weight dragged along<br \/>\nHis face was in contusion<br \/>\nOfcourse all this was wrong<\/p>\n<p>But this is called live exports<br \/>\nEgypt knows it all<br \/>\nYour kebabs do they taste good<br \/>\nThe suffering of the fool<br \/>\nDistressed an utter reject<br \/>\nOf the life that it had known<br \/>\nDowntrodden and maltreated<br \/>\nEvery single groan<\/p>\n<p>Rupturing the ear  drums<br \/>\nOf those of  us who know<br \/>\nThe price the animals have to pay<br \/>\nTo be part of your show<br \/>\nInfelicitous suffering<br \/>\nLamenting all the while<br \/>\nA half an hour of torture<br \/>\nAnd all thats left is a pile<br \/>\nOf flesh and bone and evidence<br \/>\nOf mortified remains<br \/>\nGabriel was beautiful<br \/>\nEven in his chains<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unconscious and impassive Insensitive and numb Negligent and spiritless A coarseness that has some Of us feeling sick inside our Stomachs when we see How animals must suffer And how it seems to be gabriel was a mahogany bull Raised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/a-mahogany-bull-from-brazil\/\">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":[173,128,104,195,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cafos-and-factory-farms","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls","category-corporate-giants","category-live-exports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493","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=34493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34495,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493\/revisions\/34495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}