{"id":40229,"date":"2019-02-12T20:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40229"},"modified":"2019-02-12T20:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:50:42","slug":"shipment-of-pigs-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/shipment-of-pigs-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Shipment of Pigs in Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pig peoducers generally<br \/>\nAre as insensitive as hell<br \/>\nTheir brains are in stagnation<br \/>\nAs long as they can sell<br \/>\nUnconcerned and callous<br \/>\nThey send us off to die<br \/>\nIn trucks and there we freeze<br \/>\nPoor souls<br \/>\nAnd few around ask why<\/p>\n<p>The authorities are useless<br \/>\nStolid emotionless fools<br \/>\nPoker faced and unseeing<br \/>\nThey know all the rules<br \/>\nBut feeling so dispassionate<br \/>\nIcebergs for a heart<br \/>\nThey see the pigs in agony<br \/>\nBut cannot even start<\/p>\n<p>To be concerned to delay shipments<br \/>\nTo offer respite, they<br \/>\nHave to stand together<br \/>\nCuddle up and pray<br \/>\nThey get no care or love<br \/>\nFrom anyone<br \/>\nUnless  they meet<br \/>\nUp with animals actvists<br \/>\nThey may see in the street<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise its miles and miles<br \/>\nOf windchill agony<br \/>\nWhere frost bites<br \/>\nGets into your ears<br \/>\nWhen you would rather be<br \/>\nSomewhere a lot warmer<br \/>\nBut nobody wants to know<br \/>\nThe driver keep his foot down<br \/>\nAnd the wind just wants to blow<\/p>\n<p>Its the unconcern of the meat trade<br \/>\nProfit all the way<br \/>\nThey deal in death and misery<br \/>\nFor them it does pay<br \/>\nOur suffering and heartache<br \/>\nMeans nothing not a thing<br \/>\nStanding here together<br \/>\nPurgatory we bring<\/p>\n<p>It really is unpleasant<br \/>\nTo die just standing here<br \/>\nKnowing no one cares for you<br \/>\nNo one shares the fear<br \/>\nIts intolerable and frightening<br \/>\nIt fills  us with regret<br \/>\nknowing our lives will be over soon<br \/>\nWhen our maker we have met<\/p>\n<p>As for our friendly handlers<br \/>\nWho decided we must die<br \/>\nWho sprayed us with the killing colours<br \/>\nAnd now ofcourse we lie<br \/>\nTogether freezing rapidly<br \/>\nBlubbering a bit<br \/>\nMany feeling tearful<br \/>\nAnd very far from fit<\/p>\n<p>Resigned to the coming torture<br \/>\nDespondent to the end<br \/>\nWe know we are a hopeless case<br \/>\nWe never found that friend<br \/>\nWho would look into our eyes and say<br \/>\nYou are saved yes you<br \/>\nNo nobody came forward<br \/>\nIts hopeless and so true<\/p>\n<p>Soon we will be hanging<br \/>\nOr maybe even there<br \/>\nin your local market<br \/>\nCould be anywhere<br \/>\nJust a chumk of dead flesh<br \/>\nFull of pain and woe<br \/>\nReady to be eaten<br \/>\nAnd now ofcourse you know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pig peoducers generally Are as insensitive as hell Their brains are in stagnation As long as they can sell Unconcerned and callous They send us off to die In trucks and there we freeze Poor souls And few around ask &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/shipment-of-pigs-in-winter\/\">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":[344,173,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229","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=40229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40236,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40229\/revisions\/40236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}