{"id":37947,"date":"2018-08-17T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=37947"},"modified":"2018-08-17T20:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T20:38:44","slug":"norway-and-the-minke-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/08\/norway-and-the-minke-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Norway and the minke whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Norway is having a bad time<br \/>\nFlogging its whale everywhere<br \/>\nHeavily subsidized costing a fortune<br \/>\nAnd unquesionably cruel<br \/>\nThe despair<\/p>\n<p>Is clear to be seen<br \/>\nFrom the masses<br \/>\nNobody really is keen<br \/>\nBut that doesnt stop them from killing the whales<br \/>\nAnd The men are particularly mean<\/p>\n<p>Trying to boost sales they target the young<br \/>\nGo to the big music scene<br \/>\nWith gastly whale burgers<br \/>\nAnd sushi making out<br \/>\nsometimes its green<\/p>\n<p>Unlabelled in places yes a surprise<br \/>\nIn skin care in face creams<br \/>\nIn pet foods whose eyes<br \/>\nAre brightened by using whale oil oh dear<br \/>\nGiven to tourists too<br \/>\nIt does appear<\/p>\n<p>Up to a 1000 whales killed every year<br \/>\nThey dont make the targets<br \/>\nBut still it is  clear<br \/>\nThey really love killing them<br \/>\nThe carnage the pain<br \/>\nThis year a big increase<br \/>\nAlthough its insane<\/p>\n<p>The markets dropped out of the<br \/>\nLets Eat some whale<br \/>\nIt does turn the stomach<br \/>\nThe great bloody trail<br \/>\nof sinews and gut<br \/>\nAnd the cries everywhere<br \/>\nThese are so beautiful<br \/>\nWhy norwegians dont care<\/p>\n<p>They skipped out of the moratorium<br \/>\nApparently they<br \/>\nDont listen to dictats<br \/>\nThey have their own way<br \/>\nIceland the faroes and norway<br \/>\nAnd japan<br \/>\nWould continue to whale<br \/>\nWith what ever ban<\/p>\n<p>They present day norseman<br \/>\nWhatever we say<br \/>\nThey will do something different<br \/>\nEven if it dont pay<br \/>\nThey are losing money<br \/>\nThat is for sure<br \/>\nBut in themselves they are not happy<br \/>\nUnless they are at war<\/p>\n<p>So the minke whales will be hunted<br \/>\nTo extinction<br \/>\nEven if they just throw the flesh away<\/p>\n<p>Thats their medieval type philosophy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Norway is having a bad time Flogging its whale everywhere Heavily subsidized costing a fortune And unquesionably cruel The despair Is clear to be seen From the masses Nobody really is keen But that doesnt stop them from killing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/08\/norway-and-the-minke-whales\/\">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":[344,173,102,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-hunting-and-poaching-includes-canned-hunts","category-whales-and-sea-shepherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947","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=37947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37952,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37947\/revisions\/37952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}