{"id":35722,"date":"2018-02-03T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35722"},"modified":"2018-02-03T10:58:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T10:58:15","slug":"animal-welfare-enters-the-chinese-highschool-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/animal-welfare-enters-the-chinese-highschool-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal welfare enters the Chinese high school agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare<br \/>\nChina, of all places<br \/>\nOffering so far such<br \/>\nAwful disgraces<br \/>\nSeen through the eyes<br \/>\nOf animal rights<br \/>\nWho have watched time and time<br \/>\nThe most squalid of sights<\/p>\n<p>As dogs and cats perish<br \/>\nYulin and away<br \/>\nAcross the nation<br \/>\nSuch a vile display<br \/>\nSharks in their millions<br \/>\nFinless they die<br \/>\nThe scourge of the oceans<br \/>\nThe TCM lie<\/p>\n<p>Pangolins innocence<br \/>\nStripped off this earth<br \/>\nElephants ivory<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve felt their worth<br \/>\nTigers all over<br \/>\nTheir teeth and their bones<br \/>\nLions decimated<br \/>\nHearing their moans<\/p>\n<p>The great rhinocerus<br \/>\nPeaceful and calm<br \/>\nStripped of the keratin horn<br \/>\nSo much harm<br \/>\nChopped off by poachers<br \/>\nThe lowest of low<br \/>\nPaid for by China<br \/>\nAs we all know<\/p>\n<p>Pigs chopped and broken<br \/>\nBulls yes we&#8217;ve seen<br \/>\nTerror and wickedness<br \/>\nIts been obscene<br \/>\nSo to see animal welfare<br \/>\nCome onto the scene<br \/>\nTo enter the schools<br \/>\nAnd To possibly wean<\/p>\n<p>The psyche away<br \/>\nFrom iniquitous guilt<br \/>\nFrom infamous conduct<br \/>\nFrom demerit and wilt<br \/>\nFrom aiding and abetting<br \/>\nmedieval desire<br \/>\nTo the massive loose morals<br \/>\nAnd frailities fire<\/p>\n<p>To feel now their guiltlessness<br \/>\nAnd freedom from blame<br \/>\nTheir inoffensiveness<br \/>\nTheir unworldly claim<br \/>\nWide eyed and saintly<br \/>\nVenial souls<br \/>\nWho we must protect<br \/>\nWith abiding controls<\/p>\n<p>Clearly a step<br \/>\nThe direction to go<br \/>\nTo help change perceptions<br \/>\nAs children grow<br \/>\nCan only be good<br \/>\nAnd ofcourse it is right<br \/>\nTo look and just see<br \/>\nEvery animals plight<\/p>\n<p>To never lose sight<br \/>\nOf their life and their need<br \/>\nOf course it is sacrosanct<br \/>\nWatching them bleed<br \/>\nWatching their babies stolen away<br \/>\nHearing their screams<br \/>\nIn the cold light of day<\/p>\n<p>Thankyou for changing and putting animals<br \/>\nInto the true light giving them a place to be cared for<br \/>\nAnd respected and taking them out of the TCM jungle completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal welfare China, of all places Offering so far such Awful disgraces Seen through the eyes Of animal rights Who have watched time and time The most squalid of sights As dogs and cats perish Yulin and away Across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/02\/animal-welfare-enters-the-chinese-highschool-agenda\/\">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":[173,170,251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-children-and-their-plight-in-a-adult-world","category-china-food-obscenity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722","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=35722"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35730,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35722\/revisions\/35730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}