{"id":47414,"date":"2020-08-22T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T08:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=47414"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T10:20:13","slug":"foie-gras-disease-torment-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/foie-gras-disease-torment-and-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Foie gras disease torment and murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This farm is non existent<br \/>\nA nullity a  blank<br \/>\nConsciousness was never ever there<br \/>\nAnd to be frank<br \/>\nNegatives the uninvented<br \/>\nIt was called a farm<br \/>\nWhere beauTiful ducks<br \/>\nWere caged and left<br \/>\nIn the most vilest or harm<\/p>\n<p>In South West France<br \/>\nA property<br \/>\nBroken sheds at play<br \/>\nA stench of death<br \/>\nThat curled into ones nostrils<br \/>\nRight Away<br \/>\nBefore the eyes could peer upon<br \/>\nThe ugliness and shame<br \/>\nThe olfactory senses all shut down<br \/>\nAnd would never feel the same<\/p>\n<p>A darkness was apparent<br \/>\nOn entering the place<br \/>\nIntrusive and inappropriate<br \/>\nA blood curdling disgrace<br \/>\nEach soul had lost its identity<br \/>\nSmothered in rotten poo<br \/>\nDisharmony and discord<br \/>\nWhat could observers do<\/p>\n<p>Throw up, sink onto one\u2019s knees<br \/>\nThe challenges ahead<br \/>\nDismemberment and entropy<br \/>\nSo many angels dead<br \/>\nTheir one time ivory wings<br \/>\nWere putrid though life<br \/>\nApparently<br \/>\nWas fighting all this evil<br \/>\nThis rotting symphony<\/p>\n<p>The whole shed a corruption<br \/>\nOf gangrenous mortify<br \/>\nOnce wonderful the purest ducks<br \/>\nBegging us to try<br \/>\nAnd rescue them just dare to go<br \/>\nInto the chaotic spaces<br \/>\nSlovenly they stood their ground<br \/>\nBut you should have seen their faces<\/p>\n<p>An assemblage of evil<br \/>\nA regiment so rank<br \/>\nA multitude of misery<br \/>\nOf fragility so frank<br \/>\nOf the great undying<br \/>\nLike geriatrics waiting<br \/>\nThe death knell sounding  in their ears<br \/>\nBut in their hearts such grating<\/p>\n<p>Entrenched in pools of utterance<br \/>\nPerpetuated by<br \/>\nNegligence and dark abuse<br \/>\nThe weakest left to die<br \/>\nAnd rot encouraging maggots<br \/>\nVast carpets of them there<br \/>\nGobbling up the sickened flesh<br \/>\nThe cause man made despair<\/p>\n<p>Crippled and disabled<br \/>\nLimbless Legless hordes<br \/>\nReceiving their undoing<br \/>\nSilencing affords<br \/>\nPulverising spirits<br \/>\nA massacre of minds<br \/>\nThey all looked like the walking dead<br \/>\nLines and lines and lines<\/p>\n<p>Brutality was obvious<br \/>\nParalysis torpor<br \/>\nTotal immobility<br \/>\nPassively unsure<br \/>\nTotally apathetic<br \/>\nAnkle deep in ooze<br \/>\nAn infernal yawning<br \/>\nDevoid of any clues<\/p>\n<p>As to why the human being<br \/>\nWould leave another to<br \/>\nA rock bottom existence<br \/>\nWhere maggots come and do<br \/>\nTheir business and where rats<br \/>\nThe size of cats engorge<br \/>\nAnd growing  fatter<br \/>\nFace their own deformity<br \/>\nAs if it didn\u2019t matter<\/p>\n<p>Everywhere dead bodies<br \/>\nAnd nobody to clear<br \/>\nIn the aisles just piles and piles<br \/>\nThe human race is drear<br \/>\nWho dares to leave his charges<br \/>\nSuch a cold and callous way<br \/>\nA Mesmerising stupor<br \/>\nWhere everyone does pay<\/p>\n<p>And these are ducks<br \/>\nWide water birds<br \/>\nCaged and left to rot<br \/>\nAt the edge of murkiness<br \/>\nThe gloaming shadows got<br \/>\nAn ugly psychodrama<br \/>\nPlayed out on the spot<\/p>\n<p>A knee jerk response<br \/>\nTo strangle any farmer there<br \/>\nGuilty of such terror<br \/>\nSuch frivolous despair<br \/>\nSuch recklessness<br \/>\nSuch thoughtlessness<br \/>\nThe evidence is there<br \/>\nA hell hole there may not be words<br \/>\nTo describe and try to share<\/p>\n<p>And this about foie gras<br \/>\nThe most rotten of fOod<br \/>\nCruelty and certainty<br \/>\nOf dying by the sword<br \/>\nOf tearing through an aching throat<br \/>\nAfter force feeding until<br \/>\nThe liver grows larger<br \/>\nAnd penetrates the lungs<br \/>\nIt\u2019s form to spill<\/p>\n<p>So irrational and incongruous<br \/>\nWarped and twisted they<br \/>\nCreate this incredulity<br \/>\nAnd so the ducks then pay<br \/>\nTerribly such agony<br \/>\nAnd no one cares a jolt<br \/>\nThe scoffed of this vile disease<br \/>\nWhat is the result <\/p>\n<p>A heart attack quite possibly<br \/>\nAll this awful fat<br \/>\nThe karmic debt the interest<br \/>\nThat is where it\u2019s sat<br \/>\nThe so called greedy individual<br \/>\nScoffing it at night<br \/>\nRecalling the vile lament<br \/>\nAnd then losing his sight<\/p>\n<p>The knowledge of this ugliness<br \/>\nWoeful to the extreme<br \/>\nCreating a soreness<br \/>\nThat no one can redeem<br \/>\nForce fed with the metal pipes<br \/>\nUnruly men don\u2019t care<br \/>\nThey thrust  them into the ducks throats<br \/>\nWhich is enough to scare<\/p>\n<p>The living daylights out of them<br \/>\nAnd then the heaving sores<br \/>\nThat build inside their poor old throats<br \/>\nAgain the world ignores<br \/>\nThe continual torture<br \/>\nThey get it day in day out<br \/>\nTheir ignorance is champion<br \/>\nThat\u2019s without a doubt<\/p>\n<p>Having read this treatise<br \/>\nWho on earth would dare<br \/>\nTo consider ever eating<br \/>\nThis terrible<br \/>\nStuff and share<br \/>\nThe misjudgement and the falsehood<br \/>\nAnd The inexactitude<br \/>\nWhat is their cretinism<br \/>\nAll nothing less than crude<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by a post of  Macdonald Nicola<br \/>\nMy favourite foie gras warrior<br \/>\nOn face book She ever. Gives up. Fight<br \/>\nTo st this utter madness and I commend her for her diligence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This farm is non existent A nullity a blank Consciousness was never ever there And to be frank Negatives the uninvented It was called a farm Where beauTiful ducks Were caged and left In the most vilest or harm In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/08\/foie-gras-disease-torment-and-murder\/\">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":[344,173,379,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-ducks","category-foie-gras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414","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=47414"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47416,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions\/47416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}