{"id":40242,"date":"2019-02-13T09:06:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=40242"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:29:37","slug":"starting-gates-and-more-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/starting-gates-and-more-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting gates and more cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has anybody stopped to think<br \/>\nHow human beings try<br \/>\nTo subjugate the animals<br \/>\nAnd then try to apply<br \/>\nReasons not to ever<br \/>\nQuery what they do<br \/>\nWhether its racing hunting<br \/>\nDressage it still for me is true<\/p>\n<p>Take horse racing<br \/>\nAnd starting gates<br \/>\nClay Pruett was the man<br \/>\nWho came up with this contraption<br \/>\nWhich is how it all began<br \/>\nTrying to achieve a level playing field<br \/>\nBut they<br \/>\nFail to think of the animals<br \/>\nWhich is mean I have to say<\/p>\n<p>Forcing animals into<br \/>\nA cage like structure they<br \/>\nHave four legs and are expected<br \/>\nTo run on any day<br \/>\nWith a jockey on their back<br \/>\nHandy with the whip<br \/>\nHandy with their heels as well<br \/>\nWanting to let rip<\/p>\n<p>Cruelty its everywhere<br \/>\nAs frustration kicks in, we<br \/>\nSee jockeys getting flustered<br \/>\nA strange mentality<br \/>\nDevelops when you are earning<br \/>\nThe tendency to be<br \/>\nInvolved with making money<br \/>\nDespite the cruelty<\/p>\n<p>The horse ofcourse restricted<br \/>\nDoesnt want to be<br \/>\nWhere its forced and then must run<br \/>\nWheres the psychology<br \/>\nPeople they illectualize<br \/>\nAnd pander to the cause<br \/>\nBut really do have empty heads<br \/>\nBursting for applause<\/p>\n<p>They want to win big money<br \/>\nNo one really feels<br \/>\nFor  the horse not really<br \/>\nNobody reveals<br \/>\nAching like the clappers<br \/>\nBut having to run like hell<br \/>\nCaught up in the starting gate<br \/>\nAnd not performing well<\/p>\n<p>The equine flu has made the news<br \/>\nNo racing for a while<br \/>\nLosing money losing betting<br \/>\nIt gies off the dial<br \/>\nRemjnding sll the trainers<br \/>\nTo vaccinate or they<br \/>\nCannot bring their horses<br \/>\nInto races now they say<br \/>\nbig pharma has the where for all<br \/>\nTo push its drugs and they<br \/>\nDespite the vaccination<br \/>\nHave caught the flu they say<br \/>\nPut two and two together<br \/>\nThe vaccination does<br \/>\nSpread the flu for goodness sake<br \/>\nCant you hear that buzz<\/p>\n<p>The peddlers of poisons<br \/>\nThe masters of deceit<br \/>\nThe cruelty to animals<br \/>\nNowadays whose discreet<br \/>\nAbout the subjugation<br \/>\nThe evil thats abounds<br \/>\nGambling and hunting<br \/>\nAnd cheffing making pounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anybody stopped to think How human beings try To subjugate the animals And then try to apply Reasons not to ever Query what they do Whether its racing hunting Dressage it still for me is true Take horse racing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/02\/starting-gates-and-more-cruelty\/\">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":[344,173,4,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-rights","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40242","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=40242"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40246,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40242\/revisions\/40246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}