{"id":40155,"date":"2019-02-03T13:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T13:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40155"},"modified":"2019-02-03T13:37:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T13:37:14","slug":"donkeys-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/donkeys-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Descended from the wild ass<br \/>\nSome 40 million now<br \/>\nIn the world and mostly<br \/>\nPack animals and how<br \/>\nThey work hard in hot climates<br \/>\nDraught animals they be<br \/>\nThey eat a lot of grass<br \/>\nThey eat voraciously.<\/p>\n<p>Recently Pakistan<br \/>\nHas realised they can fulfil<br \/>\nChina&#8217;s use of Donkey Hides<br \/>\nAnd meat farms there are still<br \/>\nReally not producing<br \/>\nThe amounts that China need<br \/>\nAnd so are getting ready<br \/>\nHoping to succeed<\/p>\n<p>With 80,000 donkeys<br \/>\nIn the next three years<br \/>\nLive exports on a grand scale<br \/>\nDespite ofcourse the fears<br \/>\nThe cruelty envisaged<br \/>\nLive animals suffer so<br \/>\nTransported as the trade demands<br \/>\nAnd when its starts to grow<\/p>\n<p>Donkeys are social animals<br \/>\nPeace loving one  can say<br \/>\nDomesticaled members of the Horse<br \/>\nOr Equidae<br \/>\nIn China donkey hide is used<br \/>\nIts soaked and stewed to make<br \/>\nA gelatine as a medicine<br \/>\n&#8220;EJIAO&#8221; comes as a cake<\/p>\n<p>A three billion dollar<br \/>\nPartnership<br \/>\nIts the foreign exchange<br \/>\nAnd donkey meat is selling too<br \/>\nRight across the range<br \/>\nMeat eating  its protein<br \/>\nAnd markets feel the need<br \/>\nTo supplement their rice and vegetables<br \/>\nHoping it will lead<\/p>\n<p>To an increase in the trading<br \/>\nRight across the board<br \/>\nDonkey  is a meat that<br \/>\nMost still can afford<br \/>\nAs China grows its population<br \/>\nNeeds a lot more meat<br \/>\nAnd Donkey provides two aspects<br \/>\nAnd a way of providing heat<\/p>\n<p>The Donkey is exceptional<br \/>\nIn that it works so hard<br \/>\nAnd now it becomes a commodity<br \/>\nIts evolution scarred<br \/>\nI do feel very sorry<br \/>\nFor animals that slave<br \/>\nAnd when retired<br \/>\nAre eaten<br \/>\nFor me thats very grave<\/p>\n<p>Humanity overides Nature<br \/>\nIn a despicable way<br \/>\nPlaces a curse<br \/>\nOn a beautiful soul<br \/>\nAnd forces it to pay<br \/>\nA high price for existence<br \/>\nIt so wholly unfair<br \/>\nIt never gets put out to grass<br \/>\nAnd so to  be aware<\/p>\n<p>Of this its rather like<br \/>\nThe cows<br \/>\nTortured all their lives<br \/>\nAnd murdered at the end of it<br \/>\nWhen hardly one survives<\/p>\n<p>A vegan diet helps more than we can imagine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descended from the wild ass Some 40 million now In the world and mostly Pack animals and how They work hard in hot climates Draught animals they be They eat a lot of grass They eat voraciously. Recently Pakistan Has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/donkeys-2\/\">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":[344,173,194,184,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-donkeys-and-working-animals","category-drugs-and-how-they-are-being-used-on-our-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155","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=40155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40157,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40155\/revisions\/40157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}