{"id":43991,"date":"2020-01-26T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43991"},"modified":"2020-01-26T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T18:48:32","slug":"an-irish-calf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/an-irish-calf\/","title":{"rendered":"An Irish Calf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unworldliness and innocence<br \/>\nSuch incorruptibility<br \/>\nGuiltlessness and  undefiled<br \/>\nUnblemished impeccability<br \/>\nA baby born a mothers care<br \/>\nRewarded for she is not there<br \/>\nRemoved at once taken away<br \/>\nKidnapped from her world today<br \/>\nA harmlessness and heart of gold<br \/>\nAn amiability that\u2019s sold<br \/>\nTo the highest bidder who<br \/>\nProbably isn\u2019t me or  you<br \/>\nNeither goodness mercy or charity<br \/>\nAnd not an ounce of empathy<br \/>\nThe worst intentions the enmity<br \/>\nAre guaranteed sadly to be<\/p>\n<p>The lot of calves a true affliction<br \/>\nHardly any benediction<br \/>\nSpitefulness plenty of that<br \/>\nCallousness where they are at<br \/>\nTorn away from their mothers side<br \/>\nThe purest love they are denied<br \/>\nLack of concern and real foul play<br \/>\nBecomes and outrage day on day<br \/>\nNo nutrition none at all<br \/>\nThe milk is taken as a rule<br \/>\nCalves are unwanted babies who<br \/>\nCan go to hell sadly that\u2019s true<br \/>\nNo blandishments no motherly love<br \/>\nThe celebration from above<br \/>\nThe state of wonder to  be alive<br \/>\nWondering how you did survive<\/p>\n<p>and now pulled off And on your own<br \/>\nYour Mother you can hear her groan<br \/>\nHer indignity her lowing tones<br \/>\nAnd the farmers haughtiness your bones<br \/>\nWeak and painful from how they threw<br \/>\nYou across the barn their anger true<br \/>\nTheir audacity and flagrancy<br \/>\nSuch brass neck awful tyranny<br \/>\nThey look at you not as a soul<br \/>\nA living miracle  with a role<br \/>\nTo play in life but something who<br \/>\nCould provide some rennet or could do<br \/>\nVeal and ham pie,  or the dogs tea<br \/>\nTragically no permanency<br \/>\nDisrespected from day one<br \/>\nThe brazen faced that held the gun<br \/>\nMight have fired it<br \/>\nCould have, he<br \/>\nWas mean spirited as we all could see<\/p>\n<p>Like a child lost and alone<br \/>\nNo love around so far thrown<br \/>\nAbout and tossed and kicked<br \/>\nNo milk to drink someone has tricked<br \/>\nMy dear mother clearly she<br \/>\nLead Way  ever to be<br \/>\nSuch intolerance really bad blood<br \/>\nMassive tension just a flood<br \/>\nOf anger and resentment here<br \/>\nLeaving me in total fear<br \/>\nA few of us together we<br \/>\nOstracised we all now be<br \/>\nBanished from the yard and mother<br \/>\nOutcastes not even another<br \/>\nDo we know, pariah\u2019s we<br \/>\nForeign like some evictee<br \/>\nSome alien all withdrawn<br \/>\nWishing we had not been born<\/p>\n<p>The labourers their gruffness sure<br \/>\nShouting loudly and whats more<br \/>\nScowling hitting us as well<br \/>\nNewly born and already  Hell<br \/>\nAnd heaps of true hostility<br \/>\nAnd Ill feeling and bitterness there be<br \/>\nIn the warmth of mother<br \/>\nAll that time<br \/>\nWhen we dreamed our dreams<br \/>\nWanting to climb<br \/>\nInto the sunshine<br \/>\nAnd to pastures new<br \/>\nWhere The sweetest clover<br \/>\nAnd honeydew<\/p>\n<p>But all we got was bitterness<br \/>\nPain abuse and so much stress<br \/>\nNo goodness and Mercy<br \/>\nHumanity<br \/>\nWas a baleful time<br \/>\nOf acerbity<br \/>\nOff to slaughter<br \/>\nApparently<br \/>\nOur stomach lining<br \/>\nIs soon cut free<br \/>\nRennin a coagulant of cheese<br \/>\nThe viciousness yes if you please<br \/>\nSome of us go to rennet or<br \/>\nTo the slaughterhouse<br \/>\nAnd on the floor<br \/>\nSmell the blood of the mothers who<br \/>\nEnd up as burgers<br \/>\nAs many do<\/p>\n<p>Some  are off to the veal crate cell<br \/>\nChains on their necks<br \/>\nFor a short spell<br \/>\nFed on slops to whiten meat<br \/>\nIt\u2019s what the humans want to eat<br \/>\nThen it\u2019s your liver<br \/>\nThey also use<br \/>\nAnd your heels took too  they might choose<br \/>\nCalf heel jelly<br \/>\nAnd liver they<br \/>\nAre all you are for them  a way<br \/>\nTo minimise their actual cost<br \/>\ncollateral  damage<br \/>\nOther bits tossed<br \/>\nInto the bins<br \/>\nTo rot away<br \/>\nTo  be a calf<br \/>\nYou have to pay<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s live exports<br \/>\nSlavery<br \/>\nA great big slice of misogyny<br \/>\nSold to the Middle East EU<br \/>\nFar Way<br \/>\nacross the sea<br \/>\nShipped right away<br \/>\nPacked together drenched in fear<br \/>\nLike terrorists it\u2019s very clear<br \/>\nThe innocence is worn away<br \/>\nThe charity no one can say<br \/>\nTheir heartlessness its opportune<br \/>\nZero tolerance really soon<br \/>\nRemorselessness and pain and sin<br \/>\nLife and love too soon wears thin<\/p>\n<p>A total impropriety<br \/>\nAn unjustifiability<br \/>\nSquashed and abused<br \/>\nWith nothing to eat<br \/>\nAnd nothing to drink<br \/>\nSo much deceit<br \/>\nThis is the meat trade<br \/>\nWholly wrong<br \/>\nBabies truly do not belong<br \/>\nIn such a world<br \/>\nHow is that fair<br \/>\nBecause consumers are unaware<br \/>\nAnd those that are<br \/>\nThey do not care<br \/>\nThey kick and punch us everywhere<br \/>\nSwear at us spit on us<br \/>\nUrinate<br \/>\neverywhere<br \/>\nNothing  is great<\/p>\n<p>Improper and vulgar<br \/>\nAnd then the sea<br \/>\nRocked about yes we be<br \/>\nNeglected rotten<br \/>\nSick as dogs<br \/>\nBruised and broken<br \/>\nNo better than hogs<br \/>\nScant respect<br \/>\nNothing to do<br \/>\nBut cry inside<br \/>\nAnd take the view<br \/>\nAt destination<br \/>\nWe shall be<br \/>\nMurdered quickly<br \/>\nHopefully<br \/>\nIrish calves the purest scorn<br \/>\nTheir unworthiness at being born<br \/>\nThey wanted our milk<br \/>\nFor their mayonnaise<br \/>\nand their bloody cheese<br \/>\nAnd their cream cake phase<br \/>\nAbandoned by everyone<br \/>\nWasted and left<br \/>\nSentenced to death<br \/>\nDenying us breath<br \/>\nOur livers our stomach<br \/>\nOur bodies our soul<br \/>\nThe meat trade<br \/>\nthe murder trade<br \/>\nSo knowing our role<\/p>\n<p>We all pray aloud to all the gods imaginable<br \/>\nThat we are never ever born again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unworldliness and innocence Such incorruptibility Guiltlessness and undefiled Unblemished impeccability A baby born a mothers care Rewarded for she is not there Removed at once taken away Kidnapped from her world today A harmlessness and heart of gold An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/01\/an-irish-calf\/\">Continue reading <span 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