{"id":377,"date":"2011-12-02T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2011-12-02T19:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T19:18:33","slug":"the-japanese-whalers-have-a-lot-to-answer-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-japanese-whalers-have-a-lot-to-answer-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese whalers have a lot to answer for"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">Minamata happened<br \/>\n<!--more-->Lots of souls were hurt<br \/>\nLots of kids were damaged<br \/>\nNobody was curt<br \/>\nEnough to bring the Corporates<br \/>\nTruthfully into line<br \/>\nShellfish in that wondrous Bay<br \/>\nwere poisoned<br \/>\nWere they fine?And nowadays Taiji&#8217;s dolphins<br \/>\nare riddled with the stuff<br \/>\nMethyl Mercury and PCB&#8217;s<br \/>\nhave they not had enough!<br \/>\nof nightmares<br \/>\nBut the Japanese are talking about face<br \/>\nTo stop the slaughter means for them<br \/>\nIt is the worst disgrace<\/p>\n<p>And so despite the nature<br \/>\nof the flesh<br \/>\nIts labelled whale<br \/>\nThe Public do not realise<br \/>\nGod knows how the trail<br \/>\nends for these poor dolphins<br \/>\nslaughtered at Tai Ji<br \/>\nTheir blood stains rocks<br \/>\nand clearly shocks<br \/>\nThe Japanese, easily<\/p>\n<p>Minamata happened<br \/>\nAnd it will happen again<br \/>\nMore children will perish<br \/>\nMore will suffer pain<br \/>\nAnd all because the mercury<br \/>\nThe PCB&#8217;s all high<br \/>\nThe Dolphins need a break here<br \/>\nFor many more will die<br \/>\nThe evil that is Taiji<br \/>\nThe Karma that is sure<br \/>\nSuch agonising methods<br \/>\nAnd all this blood and gore<br \/>\nAttracting would be angels<br \/>\nAnd half the world around<br \/>\nWe have to stop this slaughter<br \/>\nOr we&#8217;ll all be bloody drowned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minamata happened a while back a factory producing chemicals discharging into Minamata Bay and thousands of people were made ill from eating the sea food, now the same problem arises from Tai ji&#8217;s Dolphins, and the whales. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/the-japanese-whalers-have-a-lot-to-answer-for\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","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=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}