{"id":48151,"date":"2020-10-10T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=48151"},"modified":"2020-10-10T18:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:16:58","slug":"eu-standards-of-pig-husbandry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/eu-standards-of-pig-husbandry\/","title":{"rendered":"EU STANDARDS OF Pig HUSBANDRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the miserly mean<br \/>\nTo those so obscene<br \/>\nPigs are a miracle<br \/>\nIn every way<br \/>\nCleaner than white<br \/>\nBrighter than bright<br \/>\nBut in our concentration camps<br \/>\nScrimping and pinching<br \/>\nMoths in Their  wallets<br \/>\nUngenerous grasping<br \/>\nSnorting and screaming<br \/>\nAnd choking and rasping<br \/>\nIts false economy<br \/>\nTurning the angels<br \/>\nInto the cannibals<br \/>\neating each other<br \/>\nProlapse everywhere<br \/>\nFlyblown into HELL<br \/>\nPigs  are a miracle<br \/>\nWhiter than white<br \/>\nA few months they begin<br \/>\nTo see day as night<br \/>\nNo where to nest<br \/>\nNo where to dump<br \/>\nNo where to be a pig<br \/>\nNo where at all<\/p>\n<p>Its the EU<br \/>\nWhere the standards are high<br \/>\nNo chlorination just before they die<br \/>\nDrag them down into the shit<br \/>\nThat they pass<br \/>\nWith bloody great prolapses<br \/>\nThat hang from their arse<br \/>\nWhere blue bottles settle<br \/>\nAnd grubs appear<br \/>\nThis is the bacon you are eating<br \/>\nMy dear<\/p>\n<p>You like it crispy<br \/>\nIt came from France<br \/>\nThe greatest EU<br \/>\nSo you have got the chance<br \/>\nTo hear the weird screeching<br \/>\nOf pigs trying to say<br \/>\nWe are not the dirty<br \/>\nIts you all the way<\/p>\n<p>I look at their faces<br \/>\nAnd into their eyes<br \/>\nThey are begging me<br \/>\nPleading, thats about the size<br \/>\nHow monopolistc and niggardly we<br \/>\nmeasure out food for these angels<br \/>\nWho\u2019d flee<br \/>\nfaster their wings<br \/>\nFlapping painfully so<br \/>\nAs Our covetous farmers<br \/>\nBank balances grow<\/p>\n<p>This poem sickens me to have to write it  to appeal to some of you<br \/>\nWho still eat their weary and tortured bodies<\/p>\n<p>I ave no compassion for you only for the PIGS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the miserly mean To those so obscene Pigs are a miracle In every way Cleaner than white Brighter than bright But in our concentration camps Scrimping and pinching Moths in Their wallets Ungenerous grasping Snorting and screaming And choking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2020\/10\/eu-standards-of-pig-husbandry\/\">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":[344,173,216,147,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abandonment","category-activism","category-animal-sacrifice","category-animals-used-for-food","category-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151","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=48151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48154,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48151\/revisions\/48154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}