{"id":43194,"date":"2019-11-17T18:07:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43194"},"modified":"2019-11-17T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T18:13:08","slug":"a-calf-plea%e2%80%99s-for-his-life-and-for-all-calves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-calf-plea%e2%80%99s-for-his-life-and-for-all-calves\/","title":{"rendered":"A calf plea\u2019s for his life and for all calves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever we are born alas<br \/>\nLife\u2019s terrible for we<br \/>\nAre actually unwanted<br \/>\nThe world does so agree<br \/>\nYou humans think<br \/>\nYou are ungulates<br \/>\nCud chewers<br \/>\nSo you think<br \/>\nYou can sup on udders<br \/>\nOur milk you want to drink<\/p>\n<p>The dairy is an industry<br \/>\nThat really truly knows<br \/>\nHow to lie for years on end<br \/>\nAnd the evil it just grows<br \/>\nYou make your cream and custard<br \/>\nYour cheeses and your whey<br \/>\nWelsh rarebit for your breakfast<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s us calves that pay<\/p>\n<p>In CHINA it is even worse<br \/>\nRather than the slaughter house<br \/>\nThey burn us whilst we are standing<br \/>\nTied outside their house<br \/>\nBurning off layers of skin<br \/>\nThe pain unbearable, I feel<br \/>\nThen someone comes to scrape away<br \/>\nThe sore flesh to reveal<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s said by your sick humans<br \/>\nThat adversity improves<br \/>\nThe flavour of our muscle meat<br \/>\nAnd all the scraping grooves<br \/>\nAllow the blood to drain away<br \/>\nAnd taste and aroma then<br \/>\nBuilds in well that\u2019s the excuse<br \/>\nFrom these  butcher men.<\/p>\n<p>Suffering is common placeIn England<br \/>\nit is too<br \/>\nCalves go off to the slaughterhouse<br \/>\nWeek old or maybe two<br \/>\nTiny little babies dreaming of a life<br \/>\nThe green grass and the daisies<br \/>\nBut all they get is strife<br \/>\nSome are shot up on the farm<br \/>\nSome are chained and fed<br \/>\nOn milky slops until they are killed<br \/>\nFor veal when they are dead<br \/>\nTheir flesh is white and creamy<br \/>\nTheir suffering was huge<br \/>\nA tiny cage chain burns around their neck<br \/>\nIn their refuge.<\/p>\n<p>And now you se me suffering<br \/>\nNobody to care<br \/>\nNobody to love me<br \/>\nI am standing there<br \/>\nWatched by many human eyes<br \/>\nAs I slowly die<br \/>\nYes I made it onto Facebook<br \/>\nI am a famous guy<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you who call yourselves<br \/>\nCarnivores will see<br \/>\nThe agony that was my life<br \/>\nAnd surely you will be<br \/>\nMore caring be a vegan<br \/>\nAnd work to make it so<br \/>\nThat butcher men and carnivores<br \/>\nChange tack<br \/>\nAnd numbers grow<\/p>\n<p>Go vegan don\u2019t wear fur or leather<br \/>\nDon\u2019t eat meat boycott the Meat trade<br \/>\nAnd the really cruel DAIRY TRADE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever we are born alas Life\u2019s terrible for we Are actually unwanted The world does so agree You humans think You are ungulates Cud chewers So you think You can sup on udders Our milk you want to drink The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/11\/a-calf-plea%e2%80%99s-for-his-life-and-for-all-calves\/\">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":[344,4,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-animal-rights","category-calves-and-cows-and-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194","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=43194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43196,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43194\/revisions\/43196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}