{"id":43183,"date":"2019-11-16T12:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43183"},"modified":"2019-11-16T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:55:30","slug":"romania-horse-market-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/romania-horse-market-cruelty\/","title":{"rendered":"ROMANIA  horse market cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard that market traders<br \/>\nIn Romania create<br \/>\nA cruel and ugly spectacle<br \/>\nSuch spiteful ness does rate<br \/>\nBadly in the scheme of things<br \/>\nFor horses up for sale<br \/>\nAre abused by making them<br \/>\nHaul great logs and boulders<br \/>\nIf they fail<br \/>\nIf they collapse<br \/>\nThey are beaten<br \/>\nWhipped until they cry<br \/>\nThey pull their tails<br \/>\nSo mercilessly<br \/>\nYou have to wonder why<\/p>\n<p>Human beings sink this low<br \/>\nAnd Heartlessness exists<br \/>\nWhat is the point of hurting souls<br \/>\nPummelling with fists<br \/>\nDrawing blood such rancour<br \/>\nA disservice to the sale<br \/>\nWhy torture animals ever<br \/>\nIt is beyond the pale<\/p>\n<p>Horses are intelligent<br \/>\nObedient and they<br \/>\nWork for people it\u2019s their will<br \/>\nBut tests of strength I\u2019d say<br \/>\nWeaken and are wrongful<br \/>\nTraders ought to know<br \/>\nThat being bloody bitchy<br \/>\nWon\u2019t help the money flow<\/p>\n<p>Romania should have laws<br \/>\nIt\u2019s in the great EU<br \/>\nWhy are they so malicious<br \/>\nIn what they say and do<br \/>\nSurely it shows squalor<br \/>\nAnd sinister intent<br \/>\nWho would enter into a contract<br \/>\nWith a horse that\u2019s clearly spent<\/p>\n<p>There is a certain madness<br \/>\nAn arrogance we see<br \/>\nAll this  mental torture<br \/>\nand massive misery<br \/>\nWatching horses struggle<br \/>\nCollapsing on the ground<br \/>\nMaltreated and suffering<br \/>\nAnd hearing the sound<\/p>\n<p>Of breathing and of torment<br \/>\nFretting on the hour<br \/>\nStress and strain and tension<br \/>\nHow can that be power<br \/>\nIt\u2019s downright cruel<br \/>\nAnd traders in Romania<br \/>\nShould be<br \/>\nHauled off to the courts and fined<br \/>\nOr be whipped themselves to see<\/p>\n<p>How they would like the lashings<br \/>\nCry babies I would think<br \/>\nWhere  someone cannot fight back<br \/>\nReally there is a link<br \/>\nThere a proven coward at work<br \/>\nPunishing a soul<br \/>\nUsing the severity<br \/>\nTheir draconian control.<\/p>\n<p>Copy to Peta<br \/>\nCopy to Romanian Rmbassy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard that market traders In Romania create A cruel and ugly spectacle Such spiteful ness does rate Badly in the scheme of things For horses up for sale Are abused by making them Haul great logs and boulders &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/romania-horse-market-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":[344,173,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-horses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183","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=43183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43185,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43183\/revisions\/43185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}