{"id":42483,"date":"2019-09-05T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42483"},"modified":"2019-09-05T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T09:14:29","slug":"the-poor-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-poor-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"The poor cows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the lack of respect<br \/>\nAnd the improbity<br \/>\nThe shabby abjectness<br \/>\nWhich to me appears key<br \/>\nCows serve the farmer<br \/>\nIn so many ways<br \/>\nAnd are tortured and stressed out<br \/>\nMost of the days<br \/>\nSuffering villainy<br \/>\nFaithless are they<br \/>\nThe carers so called<br \/>\nReally get in the way<br \/>\nOf love and affection<br \/>\nAnd integrity<br \/>\nAs so many hardships<br \/>\nbuildup naturally<\/p>\n<p>Cruelty it is a part of each day<br \/>\nTagging the ears it hurts<br \/>\nPeople say<br \/>\nCows don\u2019t have feelings<br \/>\nWe can brand them and see<br \/>\nThe hot irons burn into them<br \/>\nAnd gracefully<br \/>\nThey struggle a bit as the flesh<br \/>\nStarts to burn<br \/>\nBut really and honestly<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no concern<\/p>\n<p>As for anaesthetics<br \/>\nWe cannot abide<br \/>\nIt just adds to costs<br \/>\nAnd we should be relied<br \/>\nOn to know how to<br \/>\nMake farming today<br \/>\nCows have no feelings<br \/>\nThey are cows so no way<\/p>\n<p>Are we going to let all this<br \/>\nCost us or we<br \/>\nWill go out of business<br \/>\nA fact you can\u2019t see<br \/>\nWe farmers our methods<br \/>\nKeep end prices low<br \/>\nIf we have to start caring<br \/>\nWhere will prices go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the lack of respect And the improbity The shabby abjectness Which to me appears key Cows serve the farmer In so many ways And are tortured and stressed out Most of the days Suffering villainy Faithless are they The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/09\/the-poor-cows\/\">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":[344,244,147,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism-in-art","category-animals-used-for-food","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42483","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=42483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42485,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42483\/revisions\/42485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}