{"id":36383,"date":"2018-04-08T11:31:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-08T11:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=36383"},"modified":"2018-04-08T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-08T12:47:30","slug":"live-sheep-exports-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/04\/live-sheep-exports-to-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Exporting live sheep to  The Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we really<br \/>\nTo imagine that we<br \/>\nHave the right now to punish<br \/>\nSheep constantly<br \/>\nChastise them and persecute<br \/>\nThem as we do<br \/>\nWith total abandonment<br \/>\nFor me it won&#8217;t do<br \/>\nWe must unfrock the liars<br \/>\nThis has to be said<br \/>\nBeautiful animals<br \/>\nThet all wind up dead<br \/>\nOr dying in torment<br \/>\nNeglected and sad<br \/>\nDeprived of sustenance<br \/>\nWhich drives me mad<\/p>\n<p>No water no food<br \/>\nOvercrowded like hell<br \/>\nOn a long ocean voyage<br \/>\nSo many we sell<br \/>\nCompeting with Dubai snd Doha<br \/>\nYes we<br \/>\nCompete with Pakistan<br \/>\nAnd Abu Dhabi<br \/>\nWe compete with somalia<br \/>\nAnd with Iran<br \/>\nWe compete with India<br \/>\nYes and sudan<\/p>\n<p>Australian authorities<br \/>\nTell markets we<br \/>\nHave the strictest standards<br \/>\nOf welfare and be<br \/>\nHeavier carcass weights<br \/>\nOur standards high<br \/>\nCommodity speak<br \/>\nAnd for most its a lie<br \/>\nTrucked to the port<br \/>\nAnd then loaded and shipped<br \/>\nCondemning these angels<br \/>\nTheir freedom is ripped<br \/>\nOut of their souls<br \/>\nIn the stench of the hold<br \/>\nCrammed in like sardines<br \/>\nYes all are sold<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the promises<br \/>\nWhat we can see<br \/>\nAs flies on the wall<br \/>\nIs where we dont want to be<br \/>\nGiven no food so they wont shit so much<br \/>\nThese exporters truly are so<br \/>\nOut of touch<br \/>\nSheep are clean animals<br \/>\nRespectful they be<br \/>\nStanding on each other<br \/>\nThey shit and they wee<br \/>\nThey stink like the heavens<br \/>\nFrightened in pain<br \/>\nUnable to breathe<br \/>\nSome going insane<\/p>\n<p>Its contradictory<br \/>\nTo statements they make<br \/>\nAbout good inspections<br \/>\nCompliance,  all fake<br \/>\nIt exceeeds all laws<br \/>\nTo ship souls in this way<br \/>\nIt should be indictable<br \/>\nThats what I say<br \/>\nThey talk up high quality<br \/>\nThey are a gift<br \/>\nA miraculous creation<br \/>\nAlive now adrift<br \/>\nIn a great rolling ocean<br \/>\nFalling about<br \/>\nThe weight of  each other<br \/>\nIs without a doubt<\/p>\n<p>In contravention<br \/>\nOf the  standards in place<br \/>\nSo many transgressions<br \/>\nIt is a disgrace<br \/>\nWe are felonious<br \/>\nLooking away<br \/>\nAnd being unaccountable<br \/>\nThese poor sheep pay<br \/>\nA terribly high price<br \/>\nFor being alive<br \/>\nThey live with our filthiness<br \/>\nAnd some will survive<br \/>\nHearing the mass bleating<br \/>\nSuffering so<br \/>\nShameless and grossness<br \/>\nVulgar and low<br \/>\nDefiled and dishonoured<br \/>\nSeduced lead astray<br \/>\nIn bed with the rats and the maggots<br \/>\nWho prey<br \/>\nOn their sores and emotions<br \/>\nViolated by<br \/>\nTheir teeth and saliva<br \/>\nTil they give up and die<\/p>\n<p>Denied of sustenance<br \/>\nAusterity<br \/>\nJust made to fast<br \/>\nTheir stomachs empty<br \/>\nFamished and ravenous<br \/>\nNothing to do<br \/>\nExcept to get  frightened<br \/>\nAnd to nervously chew<br \/>\nOn comrades for comfort<br \/>\nIt is the case<br \/>\nYou feel so abandoned<br \/>\nAnd dont want to face<br \/>\nAnymore terror<br \/>\nThe iniquity<br \/>\nYour true loss of innocence<br \/>\nAnd the depravity<br \/>\nThey are putting you through<br \/>\nIts degrading your soul<br \/>\nYou feel frail you feel foible<br \/>\nLosing control<br \/>\nAccursed in what is this unforgiving<br \/>\nCramped hold<br \/>\nYou know they are blameworthy<br \/>\non that you are sold<\/p>\n<p>Licensed by government<br \/>\nThats what they say<br \/>\nThe safety authority<br \/>\nYes of the day<br \/>\nWith welfare standards<br \/>\nSecond to none<br \/>\nTheir pants are on fire<br \/>\nSomeone get a gun<br \/>\nIn the swell of the waves<br \/>\nWe are thrown here and there<br \/>\nWe are bruised we are cut<br \/>\nWe are desperate for air<br \/>\nOur farming fraternity<br \/>\nBack home in OZ<br \/>\nWont be even thinking of us<br \/>\nJust because<\/p>\n<p>They wiped their hands of us<br \/>\nSelf seeking gits<br \/>\nOut of sight out of  mind<br \/>\nIt gives me the shits<br \/>\nTheir lack of principle<br \/>\nAnd insincerity<br \/>\nWith sll their sheep babies<br \/>\nNow on the high sea<br \/>\nHeads they win<br \/>\nTails we lose<br \/>\nShudderingly<br \/>\nOur accusations<br \/>\nThe godly might see<br \/>\nHumiliation scorn and disdain<br \/>\nDespised by the crew<br \/>\nWho have little to gain<\/p>\n<p>A total unwillingness<br \/>\nTo offer care<br \/>\nWanting of duty<br \/>\nAnd unwilling to share<br \/>\nSome light or some water<br \/>\nWe gasp  we so dry<br \/>\nWe scream and we shiver<br \/>\nAnd more of us die<br \/>\n99 per cent the sales people<br \/>\nSay<br \/>\nOf the sheep shipped arrive<br \/>\nSafe and sound<br \/>\nAll the way<br \/>\nWhich is a big lie<br \/>\nWhen so many die<br \/>\nAnd the suffering caused<br \/>\nwhen allmof us pay<\/p>\n<p>Live exports should be banned<br \/>\nThey make out a case<br \/>\nFor Australian sheep<br \/>\nIf they only would brace<br \/>\nThemselves for the terror<br \/>\nThe horror aboard<br \/>\nThe pain and the suffering<br \/>\nWe cannot afford<br \/>\nThey are absolute liars<br \/>\nNo humility<br \/>\nIts all about profit<br \/>\nAnd ego it be<br \/>\nInverted snobbery<br \/>\nLots of false pride<br \/>\nHubristic tossers<br \/>\nWhere all is denied<\/p>\n<p>And when we arrive<br \/>\nThe tumultuous scene<br \/>\nWe are packed off in cars<br \/>\nTo be butchered obscene<br \/>\nKillings in front of us,<br \/>\njust in the street<br \/>\nSacrificed monstrously<br \/>\nin all that heat<br \/>\nAs for the meat and livestock brigade<br \/>\nAnd maritime safety<br \/>\nOn your heads its laid<br \/>\nInconsolable grief<br \/>\nUnpropitious are we<br \/>\nTo the dreadful live exports<br \/>\nWhich ominously<\/p>\n<p>Continue to happen<br \/>\nDespite the despair<br \/>\nThe intimidation<br \/>\nYes all it there<br \/>\nThe qualms the mistrust<br \/>\nShitting bricks and the rest<br \/>\nThe flesh creeping mind boggling<br \/>\nTerror at best<br \/>\nAt the destination<br \/>\nThe tastelessness there<br \/>\nThey are all philistines<br \/>\nThere they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nThey are butt ugly demons<br \/>\nUngainly brutes<br \/>\nWho are quick to disfigure<br \/>\nAnd tear at our roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we really To imagine that we Have 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