{"id":41868,"date":"2019-07-30T10:35:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T10:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=41868"},"modified":"2019-07-30T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:18:09","slug":"zimbabwe%e2%80%99s-cruelty-knows-no-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/zimbabwe%e2%80%99s-cruelty-knows-no-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\u2019s cruelty knows no bounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to any reason<br \/>\nGifted souls we see<br \/>\nAre unlawfully captured<br \/>\nTo be exported tragically<br \/>\nLittle baby elephants<br \/>\nStolen from their mums<br \/>\nSold to the highest bidder<br \/>\nReally just for crumbs<br \/>\nNo respect whatsoever<br \/>\nUnreasoned all the way<br \/>\nUnsound and unfounded<br \/>\nMaking the families pay<br \/>\nUnintelligent obsession<br \/>\nWarped judgement all the way<br \/>\nUsing illegal permits<br \/>\nWhat can  people say<\/p>\n<p>Using tunnel vision<br \/>\nAnd a jaundiced eye<br \/>\nBowing to the riches<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s all done on a lie<br \/>\nInfidels for certain<br \/>\nWho try to explain away<br \/>\nThe cruelty and savagery<br \/>\nOf what they plan today<br \/>\n37 elephants<br \/>\nBabies everyone<br \/>\nSuch ignorance is awful<br \/>\nUnderneath the sun<br \/>\nSuch unconsciousness<br \/>\nPrevailing<br \/>\nCrass ignorance in fact<br \/>\nUntutored and illiterate<br \/>\nCITES To react<br \/>\nLowbrow and unscholarly<br \/>\nBlockheads to be sure<br \/>\nIn charge of gifted elephants<br \/>\nAnd their want to exchange more<\/p>\n<p>Cock eyed<br \/>\nand unreasoned<br \/>\nDeluded and perverse<br \/>\nOff the beam wide of the mark<br \/>\nZIMBABWE is a curse<br \/>\nShipping them to China<br \/>\nOr to Pakistan I hear<br \/>\nWhere Poor treatment<br \/>\nEverybody knows<br \/>\nAnd the world At large does fear<br \/>\nIt\u2019s morally indefensible<br \/>\nSo says Iris Ho<br \/>\nAnd she is to be respected<br \/>\nNot ignored<br \/>\nAs we all know<br \/>\nIn Bomas in Hwange<br \/>\nThese victims wait their fate<br \/>\nIt will be a death sentence<br \/>\nAnd the reason we berate<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe for its dishonesty<br \/>\nCausing the distress<br \/>\nSending babies 7000 miles<br \/>\nThey should confess<br \/>\nThe sin they are committing<br \/>\nIt\u2019s an absurdity<br \/>\nA hair brained crackpot system<br \/>\nOf Utter idiocy<br \/>\nRecklessness And moronic<br \/>\nUnenlightened and unwise<br \/>\nThis palm greasing improbity<br \/>\nWe all can realise<br \/>\nIt\u2019s corruption plain and simple<br \/>\nAnd those who do this should<br \/>\nBe shackled in some prison cell<br \/>\nAnd really then they would<br \/>\nHave sufficient time to contemplate<br \/>\nThe error of their ways<br \/>\nThe cruelty which hopefully<br \/>\nWould be with them all their days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to any reason Gifted souls we see Are unlawfully captured To be exported tragically Little baby elephants Stolen from their mums Sold to the highest bidder Really just for crumbs No respect whatsoever Unreasoned all the way Unsound and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/07\/zimbabwe%e2%80%99s-cruelty-knows-no-bounds\/\">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":[344,173,194,136,97,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-africa","category-circus","category-elephants","category-zoos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868","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=41868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41871,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41868\/revisions\/41871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}