{"id":42964,"date":"2019-10-25T16:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=42964"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:28:12","slug":"at-the-livestock-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/10\/at-the-livestock-market\/","title":{"rendered":"At the livestock market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The innocence of babies<br \/>\nOf little calves who find<br \/>\nThemselves within an auction<br \/>\nIt enough to blow the mind<br \/>\nLoads of laughing farming types<br \/>\nCavorting gleefully<br \/>\nAnd you a little frightened calf<br \/>\nWaiting harmlessly<\/p>\n<p>The calling out of figures<br \/>\nThe prodding all the time<br \/>\nConfused and clearly frightened<br \/>\nWide eyed and no rhyme<br \/>\nOr reason really<br \/>\nThat a baby such as thou<br \/>\nShould be standing in an auction ring<br \/>\nOn line sales and how<\/p>\n<p>Misunderstood and blameless<br \/>\nWhat have these babies done<br \/>\nTo have to go through all of this<br \/>\nAnd listen to the ton<br \/>\nOf people making bids for them<br \/>\nUp to a thousand quid<br \/>\nThat says it all it\u2019s down to veal<br \/>\nThe meat trade lifts the lid<\/p>\n<p>Off the livestock market<br \/>\nDealing in lovely souls<br \/>\nIniquity is present<br \/>\nDegeneracy takes roles<br \/>\nAbove and beyond the wildness<br \/>\nOf nature that we see<br \/>\nThe unworthiness of selling<br \/>\nAnd the inhumanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The innocence of babies Of little calves who find Themselves within an auction It enough to blow the mind Loads of laughing farming types Cavorting gleefully And you a little frightened calf Waiting harmlessly The calling out of figures The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/10\/at-the-livestock-market\/\">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":[344,173,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964","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=42964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42965,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42964\/revisions\/42965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}