{"id":482,"date":"2011-12-12T19:31:19","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2011-12-12T20:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:04:23","slug":"a-vegans-rant-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-vegans-rant-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A vegan&#8217;s rant for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">The Carnists are at work in advertising<br \/>\n<!--more-->Hoping above all else that their spoils<br \/>\nthe flesh and blood, the muscle and the tussle<br \/>\nThe liver giver, kidneys, hearts and oils<br \/>\nThe Turkey millions slaughtered in a moment<br \/>\nDespatched to somewhere else where souls can gain<br \/>\nThe Geese their fat is torn from them<br \/>\ntheir bodies liposuctioned harvesting what some call the rich fat vein<br \/>\nIt kind of clogged the organs of the the departed, and that was that<br \/>\nBut now its sold as a great thing to cook spuds in<br \/>\nCrispy crunchy incredibly tasty fayre<br \/>\na little twist of refined salt and possibly some refined malt<br \/>\ncholesterol rich, and something all can share<br \/>\nBeef fat in the puddings<br \/>\nBeef fat in the pies<br \/>\nGoose fat with the potatoes<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t they realise<br \/>\nForce meat normally pigs cheek<br \/>\nstuffed up the turkeys arse<br \/>\nAnd poor old mum half kills herself<br \/>\nto make it taste 1st classShe&#8217;s been out in that kitchen<br \/>\nHalf the bleeding day<br \/>\nBoiling the sprouts that once were green<br \/>\nuntil they have turned grey<br \/>\nThe cream whipped from the baby calf<br \/>\nwho was slaughtered on the spot<br \/>\nand whipped off to the renderers to be<br \/>\nput in the pet pot<br \/>\nShe scorched her eyebrows setting light<br \/>\nto the cognac on the pud<br \/>\nand the custards all gone lumpy<br \/>\nwhich dad said isn&#8217;t good<br \/>\nI feel sorry for the animals<br \/>\ninvolved in Christmas Day<br \/>\nand feel sorry for the mothers<br \/>\nwho have to make it pay.<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vegan of nearly 39 years does feel like this about what the average family eats, and there&#8217;s no getting away from it except to release my frustration on my blog and let the world think about it, if they wish to <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/12\/a-vegans-rant-for-christmas\/\">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":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}